Must There be Scapegoats?: Violence and Redemption in the BibleGracewing, 2000 - 243 pages "Schwager reverses three millennia of conventional understanding of the Bible as he argues that the God of the Old Testament is not a God of violence; that Jesus sacrifice is not an act of appeasement of the Father; and that the suffering and death of an infinite victim is not compensation for an infinite offence against God."-- Back cover. |
Contents
Violence and the Sacred | 1 |
From the God of Vengeance | 43 |
Jesus as Scapegoat | 136 |
Copyright | |
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