God's Just Vengeance: Crime, Violence and the Rhetoric of Salvation

by Timothy Gorringe

Book Overview

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 the atonement interacted and reacted with penal practice. Gorringe argues that atonement theology created a structure of affect that favored retributive policies. He reviews theory and practice in the twentieth century, and makes concrete...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521553016
• ISBN13: 9780521553018
• Release Date: March 1996
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 296 Pages
• Weight: 1.02 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.6" x 8.8"