God's just vengeance : crime, violence, and the rhetoric of salvation / Timothy Gorringe.

This 1996 book examines the relationship between the theologies of atonement and penal strategies. Christian theology was potent in Western society until the nineteenth century, and the so-called 'satisfaction theory' of atonement interacted and reacted with penal practice. Drawing on the...

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Main Author: Gorringe, Timothy (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 1996.
Series:Cambridge studies in ideology and religion ; 9.
Subjects:
Satisfaction for sin > History of doctrines.
Revenge > Religious aspects > Christianity > History of doctrines.
God (Christianity) > Wrath > History of doctrines.
Crime > Religious aspects > Christianity > History of doctrines.
Violence > Religious aspects > Christianity > History of doctrines.
Punishment > Religious aspects > Christianity > History of doctrines.
Crime > Great Britain > History.
Punishment > Great Britain > History.
Corrections > Great Britain > History.
Reconciliation > Religious aspects > Christianity.
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511627934
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