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

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

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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
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 1996.
Series:Cambridge books online.
Cambridge studies in ideology and religion ; no. 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.
Corrections.
Crime.
Punishment.
Great Britain.
History.

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