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Death of Jesus (Paul Fiddes (Journey of Forgiveness, 1)Voyage of Discovery…
Death of Jesus
Paul Fiddes
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Forgiver must be prepared to 'absorb the hostility of the other' (offender). The offender, of course, should resist doing this or giving justification
Both link to Barth's idea of 'The way of the Son into the Far Country'- walking away from the Father into the depths of the reality of sin
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'though atonement has been achieved potentially in the event of Christ, it only becomes actual in the present' (objective and subjective elements)-> Hope
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'Atonement'
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Anselm: moral order of world disturbed by sin, needed setting straight. Humans couldn't set it straight because 1) their powers had been vitiated by sin and 2) because the debt was infinite (because of the infinite worth of the one offended). Based on medieval feudal system? -> Satisfaction or punishment. Jesus = satisfaction.
Hans Kung: A Crucified God, then? I cannot agree with this thesis... In the Cross of Christ it was not the God ho theos... who is the Father... How otherwise could the crucified Jesus have been able to cry out to God in his godforsakeness?'
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Balthasar: 'inclusive substitution'- not about punishment but about the divine becoming human so that human can become divine. 'the substitute draws others into his own attitude'
Calvin/John Wesley: Penal Substitution. Christ was punished in place of sinners. Calvin: Jesus 'even submitted as a criminal, to sustain and suffer all the punishment which would have been inflicted on them'
Both Barth and Calvin make use of the three offices of Christ: Priest, Prophet and King. (Barth- Servant redeeming us from pride, True Witness to the Truth, Royal Partnership with God) (Calvin- Satisfaction, Moral Influence and Christus Victor (Aulen))
Barth: The Judge Judged in Our Place CD IV.i. Jesus taken the place of men... in all matters of reconciliation with God
Rene Girard: Hypothesized that people turned to religion as a way of coping with violence in their communities- the scapegoat was a way of preventing destruction in a community. Jesus' death was not necessary but was a generous instance of God's love- offered as a scapegoat to free man from the cycle of violence -> lamb of God
Critiques
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Kathryn Tanner: Concerns that the cross legitimises injustices and oppression. Death is an impediment to Christ's mission and it is overcome by the resurrection. 'Here is a God... who puts no value on death or suffering... and no ultimate value on self-sacrifice for the good'. Death is not the sanctifier- Christ is sanctifying death as a passage to life.
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Nietzsche: 'psychological reality of redemption- a new way of living not a new belief'. The idea that Jesus' death was sacrificial is a 'terrifyingly absurd' idea.
Why?
Sin: 'hatta'= missing the mark. To fail to meet a standard. Also 'pesha' = revolt, 'avon' = crookedness
Oscar Romero: 'God wants to save us in a people. He does not want to save us in isolation... What is a people? A people is a community of persons where all cooperate for the common good'.
Ratzinger: 'In redemption he does not take creation back but rather makes it whole and raises it up'. 'The Cross of Christ means that he precedes us and that he accompanies us on the painful way of our healing and salvation'
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