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Author / Creator:Stump, Eleonore, 1947-, author.
Edition:First edition.
Imprint:Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2018.
Description:xv, 538 pages ; 24 cm.
Language:English
Series:Oxford studies in analytic theology
Oxford studies in analytic theology.
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Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11784669
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ISBN:0198813864
9780198813866
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Summary:The doctrine of the atonement is the distinctive doctrine of Christianity. Over the course of many centuries of reflection, highly diverse interpretations of the doctrine have been proposed. In the context of this history of interpretation, Eleonore Stump considers the doctrine afresh with philosophical care. Whatever exactly the atonement is, it is supposed to include a solution to the problems of the human condition, especially its guilt and shame. Stump canvasses the major interpretations of the doctrine that attempt to explain this solution and argues that all of them have serious shortcomings. In their place, she argues for an interpretation that is both novel and yet traditional and that has significant advantages over other interpretations, including Anselms well-known account of the doctrine. In the process, she also discusses love, union, guilt, shame, forgiveness, retribution, punishment, shared attention, mind-reading, empathy, and various other issues in moral psychology and ethics.
Physical Description:xv, 538 pages ; 24 cm.
ISBN:0198813864
9780198813866