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Atonement: Classic and Contemporary, Sacred and Secular
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Atonement: Classic and Contemporary, Sacred and Secular

A special issue of Religions (ISSN 2077-1444). This special issue belongs to the section "Religions and Theologies".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 August 2022) | Viewed by 8724

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Dr. Joshua C. Thurow

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Department of Philosophy and Classics, University of Texas at San Antonio, San Antonio, TX 78249, USA
Interests: epistemology; philosophy of religion; metaphysics

Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

Atonement—the general notion of doing something to make up for one’s wrongdoing in order to move towards being “at one” with the victims of the wrong—is a fundamental human notion. All humans wrong each other and in response we often desire or demand atonement. Racial and other forms of injustice have led many to believe that atonement for past wrongs is a crucial part of moving forward in a new, healthier and more just, social life. Atonement is of particular significance within certain religions—e.g., Christianity with its doctrine of Christ’s atonement for human sin. Recently, there has been a wellspring of work on atonement—both in the religious dimensions, including the doctrine of the atonement, and in general human dimensions of how we ought to atone to one another. The goal of this Special Issue is to expand discussion of atonement in a few ways: i) expanding our understanding of the religious dimensions of atonement by examining atonement across a variety of religions and in neglected theologians and philosophers of the past; ii) tracing out connections between atonement and other important concepts such as reconciliation, justification, forgiveness, restitution and reparation, love, and justice; and iii) examining the communal importance of atonement (e.g., through the notions of collective wrongs and collective atonement). Any paper that fits with these broad goals may be submitted. The Special Issue aims to draw on a better understanding of past work—theological and philosophical—on atonement to contribute to a richer contemporary understanding of the nature and value of atonement for both sacred and secular spheres of life.

Dr. Joshua C. Thurow
Guest Editor

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Keywords

  • atonement
  • forgiveness
  • satisfaction
  • reparation
  • restitution
  • reconciliation
  • making amends
  • sacrifice
  • penance
  • Anselm

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Atonement, Returning, and Repentance in Islam
by Atif Khalil
Religions 2023, 14(2), 168; https://doi.org/10.3390/rel14020168 - 29 Jan 2023
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The aim of this article is to demonstrate how in Islam the principle mechanism for atonement lies in tawba (returning, repentance). Divided into four sections, and drawing primarily on the literature of classical Sufism, the analysis begins by defining some key terms related [...] Read more.
The aim of this article is to demonstrate how in Islam the principle mechanism for atonement lies in tawba (returning, repentance). Divided into four sections, and drawing primarily on the literature of classical Sufism, the analysis begins by defining some key terms related to the idea of atonement, with special attention to the language of the Quran. Then it outlines three conditions of returning, repentance, and atonement, delineated by classical Muslim authorities, before turning to a brief overview of the concept of amending wrongs or settings matters aright. It concludes with some final remarks about the possibilities of atonement available until death, and the soteriological role divine mercy is believed to play in the posthumous states of the soul. Full article
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Priestly Garments as Atoning Agents in Amoraic Literature
by Shlomo Zuckier
Religions 2022, 13(12), 1220; https://doi.org/10.3390/rel13121220 - 15 Dec 2022
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The garments worn by the priests in the Temple not only present a stark image of “glory and splendor” (Exod 28:2) but present an accompanying theology, as well. This paper will focus on one theological strand—the idea that the priestly garments atone—in classical [...] Read more.
The garments worn by the priests in the Temple not only present a stark image of “glory and splendor” (Exod 28:2) but present an accompanying theology, as well. This paper will focus on one theological strand—the idea that the priestly garments atone—in classical Judaism. It will demonstrate that, while the biblical account of priestly garments sees them largely as functional or as serving primarily in non-expiatory roles, late classical rabbinic (i.e., Amoraic) literature features an extensive tradition that these garments serve to atone for a variety of sins. This paper traces several versions of that tradition in exploring the expansive account of atonement found in these rabbinic texts and contextualizing that within other developments in classical Judaism and rabbinic literature. Full article
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Narrative and Atonement: The Ministry of Reconciliation in the Work of James H. Cone
by Jonathan C. Rutledge
Religions 2022, 13(10), 985; https://doi.org/10.3390/rel13100985 - 19 Oct 2022
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Contemporary analytic theological discussions of atonement do not attend extensively to questions of how narrative might relate to the atoning work of Christ. Liberation theologians, on the other hand, utilize narrative in their scholarly method regularly and often employ it when discussing atonement [...] Read more.
Contemporary analytic theological discussions of atonement do not attend extensively to questions of how narrative might relate to the atoning work of Christ. Liberation theologians, on the other hand, utilize narrative in their scholarly method regularly and often employ it when discussing atonement or reconciliation. This essay argues that analytic theologians should consider the notion of narrative (and narrative identity) as a mechanism of atonement in the broad sense of the term introduced when William Tyndale coined ‘atonement’ to translate 2 Corinthians 5. I then offer some psychological grounds for thinking that reframing one’s self-narrative in terms of a transcendent narrative is often conducive to human flourishing, and I consider the work of James H. Cone as an instance of such transcendent narrative reframing at work. Full article
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The Spirit of the Atonement: The Role of the Holy Spirit in Christ’s Death and Resurrection
by Adam Johnson and Tessa Hayashida
Religions 2022, 13(10), 918; https://doi.org/10.3390/rel13100918 - 30 Sep 2022
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In this essay, we marshal resources from a range of biblical, trinitarian and soteriological commitments, set within a broadly Barthian framework, to offer a doctrinal proposal for the Spirit’s role in the triune God’s work of at-one-ment. We argue that the Spirit plays [...] Read more.
In this essay, we marshal resources from a range of biblical, trinitarian and soteriological commitments, set within a broadly Barthian framework, to offer a doctrinal proposal for the Spirit’s role in the triune God’s work of at-one-ment. We argue that the Spirit plays a vital role in the atoning work of the triune God, as the Spirit is the love of God directed toward the incarnate Son a two-fold manner: (1) in the mode of wrath against our sin born by Christ our representative, and (2) in its mode of blessing in the resurrected and ascended Christ, the exalted one in whom we receive the promised Holy Spirit. Seen in this light, Christ’s death and resurrection was God’s two-fold act of love in the Spirit: the two-fold means of making our representative, Jesus, a fit receptacle for the promised Holy Spirit, that in him all the peoples of the earth might be blessed through his recapitulation of Israel. Key to this thesis are two commitments: (1) seeing a changing economic relationship between Jesus and the Holy Spirit integral to Jesus’ recapitulation of Israel, and (2) viewing wrath as a mode of God’s love, and therefore a part of, rather than something alien to, the work of the Spirit. With these doctrinal resources in hand, we have the necessary conceptual tools to affirm that the Spirit, just as much as the Father and the Son, is the one who saves us in the death and resurrection of Jesus. Full article
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