Title: God's just vengeance : crime, violence, and the rhetoric of salvation /
Authors: Gorringe, Timothy
Publisher: Cambridge University Press,
Year: 1996
Subjects: Satisfaction for sin History of doctrines.; Revenge Religious aspects Christianity History of doctrines.; God 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
Contents: 1. Religion and retribution -- pt. I. The Cultural Formation of Atonement: Biblical Sources -- Blood which makes atonement -- Accounting for the cross -- pt. II. Making Satisfaction: Atonement and Penalty 1090-1890 -- The ladder of all high designs -- The wounds of Christ -- Three angry letters in a book -- The moral government of the universe -- The age of atonement -- pt. III. Contemporary Directions in Atonement and Penal Theory -- The gospel and retribution -- Forgiveness, crime and community.