Creation and the cross : the mercy of God for a planet in peril /

Creation and the cross : the mercy of God for a planet in peril /

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Author / Creator:Johnson, Elizabeth A., 1941- author.
Imprint:Maryknoll, NY : Orbis Books, [2018]
Description:xvii, 238 pages ; 22 cm
Language:English
Subject:
Anselm, -- Saint, Archbishop of Canterbury, -- 1033-1109.
Anselm, -- Saint, Archbishop of Canterbury, -- 1033-1109.
Redemption -- Christianity.
Ecotheology.
Restoration ecology.
Atonement.
God (Christianity) -- Love.
Creation.
Redemption -- Christianity.
Atonement.
Creation.
Ecotheology.
God (Christianity) -- Love.
Restoration ecology.
Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/13179220
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ISBN:9781626982666
162698266X
9781608337323
9781626983090
1626983097
Notes:Includes bibliographical references.
committed to retain from JKM Seminaries Library 2023 JKM University of Chicago Library
Summary:In this fresh creative approach to theology, Elizabeth Johnson asks how we can understand cosmic redemption in a time of advancing ecological devastation. In effect, how can we extend the core Christian belief in salvation to include all created beings? Immediately this question runs into a formidable obstacle: the idea that Jesus's death on the cross was required as atonement for human sin-- a theology laid out by the eleventh-century theologian St. Anselm. Constructing her argument (like Anselm) in the form of a dialogue, Johnson lays out the foundations in scripture, the teachings of Jesus, and the early Church for an understanding that emphasizes the love and mercy of God, showing how this approach can help us respond to a planet in peril.
Other form:Online version: Johnson, Elizabeth A., 1941- Creation and the cross. Maryknoll : Orbis Books, 2018 9781608337323
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • Book I. Wrestling with Anselm
  • 1.1. The question on which Anselm's whole work rests
  • 1.2. How feudalism shaped the satisfaction theory of atonement
  • 1.3. Grim dilemma, gracious solution
  • 1.4. How great and how just is God's compassion!
  • 1.5. The flight of the satisfaction theory through history
  • 1.6. Critical assessments of the satisfaction theory in our own day
  • 1.7. The question on which this whole work rests
  • Book II. The Creating God Who Saves
  • 2.1. The historical context of Second Isaiah: exile and release from captivity
  • 2.2. YHWH the Redeemer of Israel
  • 2.3. What it means to redeem
  • 2.4. Healed, forgiven, redeemed, restored
  • 2.5. Even when you turn gray I will carry you
  • 2.6. Partnering the redeeming work of God
  • 2.7. Sin forgiven
  • 2.8. The God of the Christian Old and New Testaments is the same God
  • Book III. Jesus of Nazareth King of the Jews
  • 3.1. The importance of knowing the gospels are narratives of faith
  • 3.2. Jesus the Jew under Roman rule
  • 3.3. Three powerful ideas in circulation: kingdom of God, messiah, resurrection of the dead
  • 3.4. A ministry that blazed like a meteor
  • 3.5. Naming God
  • 3.6. Facing death
  • 3.7. Suffered under Pontius Pilate, was crucified, died, and was buried
  • 3.8. "But God raised him up, having freed him from death" (Acts 2:24)
  • 3.9. Resurrection: theological reflections
  • 3.10. The cross revisited
  • 3.11. Salvation: a double solidarity
  • Book IV. Interpretations Blossom
  • 4.1. "Those who loved him did not cease"
  • 4.2. The power of metaphor: salvation
  • 4.3. Military and diplomatic metaphors
  • 4.4. Financial and legal metaphors
  • 4.5. Cultic and sacrificial metaphors
  • 4.6. Family metaphors
  • 4.7. Metaphor of a new creation
  • 4.8. "You holy servant Jesus" (Acts 4:40)
  • 4.9. Let the satisfaction theory retire
  • Book V. God of All Flesh: Deep Incarnation
  • 5.1. Solidarity in spades
  • 5.2. The rainbow gives assurance
  • 5.3. Flesh misunderstood and disrespected
  • 5.4. She is more beautiful than the sun and the starts
  • 5.5. Jesus the Wisdom of God
  • 5.6. Deep incarnation
  • 5.7. Deep cross and resurrection
  • Book VI. Conversion of Heart and Mind: Us
  • 6.1. Conversion in the spirit of the burning bush
  • 6.2. Blue marble: the community of creation
  • 6.3. From pyramid to circle
  • 6.4. "A value of their own in God's eyes" (LS 69)
  • 6.5. "You save humans and animals alike" (Ps 36:6)
  • 6.6. Expanding the heart: us
  • 6.7. Creation and the cross
  • Notes
  • Works Consulted
  • Acknowledgments

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