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God's Just Vengeance: Crime, Violence and the Rhetoric of Salvation(Series Number 9 Cambridge Studies in Ideology and Religion)

God's Just Vengeance: Crime, Violence and the Rhetoric of Salvation(Series Number 9 Cambridge Studies in Ideology and Religion)


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This 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 work of Norbert Elias and David Garland, the author argues that atonement theology created a structure of affect which favoured retributive policies. He ranges freely between Old Testament texts, St Anselm, and eighteenth- and nineteenth-century British social history, to show the integral connection between sin and crime, the legal and the moral. The question arises if the preaching of the cross not only desensitised us to judicial violence but even lent it sanction. The last two chapters review theory and practice in the twentieth century, and Timothy Gorringe makes concrete proposals for both theology and criminal and societal violence.

Table of Contents:
1. Religion and retribution; Part I. The Cultural Formation of Atonement: Biblical Sources: 2. Blood which makes atonement; 3. Accounting for the cross; Part II. Making Satisfaction: Atonement and Penalty 1090–1890: 4. The ladder of all high designs; 5. The wounds of Christ; 6. Three angry letters in a book; 7. The moral government of the universe; 8. The age of atonement; Part III. Contemporary Directions in Atonement and Penal Theory: 9. The gospel and retribution; 10. Forgiveness, crime and community.

Review :
"...[an] extraordinarily learned volume...unusually perceptive and even profound. It should be read and studied carefully by everyone involved in the administration of criminal justice." Law Books In Review "...the author convincingly demonstrates how an atonement model invariably leads to a retributivist strategy based on punishing offenders." The Canadian Catholic Review "...a fine piece of detective work." Theological Studies "...this is an ambitious and thought-provoking book." Rachel Fulton, Law and History Review


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9780521553018
  • Publisher: Cambridge University Press
  • Publisher Imprint: Cambridge University Press
  • Height: 222 mm
  • No of Pages: 296
  • Returnable: N
  • Series Title: Series Number 9 Cambridge Studies in Ideology and Religion
  • Sub Title: Crime, Violence and the Rhetoric of Salvation
  • Width: 140 mm
  • ISBN-10: 0521553016
  • Publisher Date: 14 Mar 1996
  • Binding: Hardback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Returnable: N
  • Spine Width: 24 mm
  • Weight: 575 gr


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