RT Book
T1 Atonement and incarnation: an essay in universalism and particularity
A1 White, Vernon
LA English
PP Cambridge
PB Cambridge University Press
YR 1991
UL https://www.ixtheo.de/Record/883484161
AB In this book Vernon White sets out to address the crisis of credibility that increasingly has affected traditional claims made for the Atonement, and attempts to explain how the life, death, and resurrection of Jesus Christ can have a universal saving significance. The present work stands as something of a sequel to the author's earlier book The Fall of a Sparrow, which attempted to show how God might be conceived as being universally and specially active in the world. In this study, White concentrates on the saving nature of that activity, and the coherence which he feels emerges if this is grounded in the particularity of the Christ-event. In defending the constitutive nature of Christ's role in the salvation of the world, without relying on Anselmian or penal substitutionary models of atonement, White proposes an atonement model which could rehabilitate such a belief without offending moral and conceptual sensibilities. A supporting chapter is provided outlining the kind of christology required to sustain this model, while the final chapters of the book discuss the ethical implications of the position adopted.
NO Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015)
CN BT265.2
SN 9780511554797
K1 Jesus Christ : Person and offices
K1 Jesus Christ
K1 Incarnation
K1 Christianity and other religions
K1 Atonement
K1 Jesus Christ ; Person and offices
DO 10.1017/CBO9780511554797