The Nonviolent Atonement

by Weaver, J. Denny

• ISBN13: 9780802864376
• ISBN10: 0802864376
• Edition: 2nd
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2011-01-26
• Publisher: Eerdmans Pub Co

Summary

A provocative study that cuts to the very heart of Christian thought, The Nonviolent Atonement challenges the traditional, Anselmian understanding of atonement - along with the assumption that heavenly justice depends on Christ's passive, innocent submission to violent death at the hands of a cruel God. Instead J. Denny Weaver offers a thoroughly nonviolent paradigm for understanding atonement, grounded in the New Testament and sensitive to the concerns of pacifist, black, feminist, and womanist theology.

Author Biography

J. Denny Weaver is professor emeritus of religion and Harry and Jean Yoder Scholar in Bible and Religion at Bluffton University, Bluffton, Ohio. His other books include Defenseless Christianity and Becoming Anabaptist.

Table of Contents

Preface	p. xi
Preface to the Second Edition	p. xiv
Introduction	p. 1
Narrative Christus Victor: The Revisioning of Atonement	p. 13
The Nonviolence of Jesus	p. 13
Images of Atonement	p. 15
Christus Victor Motif	p. 15
Satisfaction Motif	p. 16
Moral Influence Motif	p. 18
Narrative Christus Victor	p. 20
The Apocalypse	p. 20
The Gospels	p. 35
René Girard	p. 48
The Apostle Paul	p. 52
Old Testament Sacrifices	p. 69
Jesus' Death as a Sacrifice	p. 72
Hebrews	p. 77
Israel's History	p. 82
Summary	p. 85
Narrative Christus Victor: Some Comparisons and Its Demise	p. 87
Distinguishing Narrative Christus Victor	p. 87
The Object of the Death of Jesus	p. 87
The Accomplishment of the Death of Jesus	p. 88
The Agent of Jesus' Death	p. 89
Our Role in Jesus' Death	p. 93
Grace and Forgiveness	p. 94
Free Will versus Predestination	p. 96
The Justice and Mercy of God	p. 97
Ethics	p. 98
Atonement in History	p. 100
The Demise of Christus Victor	p. 101
Constantinian Synthesis	p. 102
Ecclesiology and Atonement	p. 106
Christology	p. 120
Conclusion	p. 126
Black Theology on Atonement	p. 129
Introduction	p. 129
First-Generation Black Theology: James H. Cone	p. 130
African American Particularity	p. 131
Reading the Bible Differently	p. 133
Critique of Classic Theology	p. 134
Cone on Atonement	p. 136
Qualifying Christendom's Theology	p. 137
Cone and Narrative Christus Victor	p. 139
Second-Generation Black Theology: Garth Kasimu Baker-Fletcher	p. 142
Contextual Affinities	p. 143
Christology and Atonement	p. 146
Conclusion	p. 150
Feminist Theology on Atonement	p. 151
Introduction	p. 151
Feminist Theology on Atonement	p. 152
Rosemary Radford Ruether	p. 152
Ruether and Narrative Christus Victor	p. 154
Joanne Carlson Bown and Rebecca Parker	p. 155
Brown and Parker and Narrative Christus Victor	p. 160
Julie M. Hopkins	p. 162
Hopkins and Narrative Christus Victor	p. 166
Rita Nakishima Brock	p. 167
Brock and Narrative Christus Victor	p. 174
Carter Heyward	p. 179
Heyward and Narrative Christus Victor	p. 183
Cynthia S. W. Crysdale	p. 185
Crysdale and Narrative Christus Victor	p. 188
Conclusion	p. 189
Womanist Theology on Atonement	p. 191
Introduction	p. 191
Womanist Particularity	p. 192
Katie Cannon	p. 192
Emilie Townes	p. 194
Delores Williams	p. 195
Womanists on Atonement	p. 198
Delores Williams	p. 198
JoAnne Marie Terrell	p. 200
Karen Baker-Fletcher	p. 201
Womanists on Theodicy	p. 206
Womanists on Christology	p. 208
Kelly Brown Douglas	p. 208
Jacquelyn Grant	p. 210
Karen Baker-Fletcher	p. 211
Narrative Christus Victor and Womanist Theology	p. 212
Conversation with Anselm and His Defenders and Detractors	p. 219
Introduction	p. 219
Conversations: Round One	p. 220
Redefinitions, Reemphases, and Rehabilitation	p. 220
Anselm and Cur Deus Homo	p. 228
Responding to the Defenses of Satisfaction	p. 236
Miroslav Volf	p. 247
Conversations: Round Two	p. 254
Defenses of Traditional Atonement	p. 255
Peter Schmiechen	p. 255
Daniel Bell	p. 259
Richard Mouw	p. 263
Hans Boersma	p. 265
Robert Sherman	p. 272
Tradition	p. 277
Nonviolent Atonement-Compatible Conversations	p. 279
Darby Kathleen Ray	p. 280
Brian McLaren	p. 282
Thomas N. Finger	p. 284
Gregory Boyd	p. 289
Stephen Finlan	p. 290
Leanne Van Dyk	p. 291
Anthony Bartlett and S. Mark Heim	p. 294
Alan Mann	p. 300
Steve Chalke	p. 305
Narrative Christus Victor: A Nonviolent Christ	p. 306
Conclusion	p. 321
Works Cited	p. 326
Index	p. 338
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