Atonement (Oxford Studies in Analytic Theology)

The doctrine of the atonement is the distinctive doctrine of Christianity. Over the course of many centuries of reflection, highly diverse interpretations of the doctrine have been proposed. In the context of this history of interpretation, Eleonore Stump considers the doctrine afresh with philosophical care. Whatever exactly the atonement is, it is supposed to include a solution to the problems of the human condition, especially its guilt and shame. Stump canvasses the major interpretations of the doctrine that attempt to explain this solution and argues that all of them have serious shortcomings. In their place, she argues for an interpretation that is both novel and yet traditional and that has significant advantages over other interpretations, including Anselm's well-known account of the doctrine. In the process, she also discusses love, union, guilt, shame, forgiveness, retribution, punishment, shared attention, mind-reading, empathy, and various other issues in moral psychology and ethics.

• Wandering in Darkness: Narrative And The Problem Of Suffering
• Aristotle's Revenge: The Metaphysical Foundations of Physical and Biological Science
• The Atonement (Elements in the Philosophy of Religion)
• The Trinitarian Christology of St Thomas Aquinas
• That All Shall Be Saved: Heaven, Hell, and Universal Salvation
• The Hiddenness of God
• Analyzing Doctrine: Toward a Systematic Theology
• Christ the Heart of Creation
• The God of the Bible and the God of the Philosophers (Aquinas Lecture)
• How Reason Can Lead to God: A Philosopher's Bridge to Faith