{"title":"God’s Suffering in the Hindu- Christian Gaze","authors":"F. Clooney","doi":"10.1515/9780823294374-006","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/9780823294374-006","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":195231,"journal":{"name":"Atonement and Comparative Theology","volume":"75 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-09-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"117190872","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Redemptive Suffering After the Shoah","authors":"Marianne Moyaert","doi":"10.5422/fordham/9780823294350.003.0010","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5422/fordham/9780823294350.003.0010","url":null,"abstract":"In this chapter, I approach the doctrine of vicarious atonement through the figure of the suffering servant. I probe how this figure has been used both by Christian and Jewish scholars throughout the centuries to better understand their role in God’s plan of salvation and to make sense of their respective historico-cultural experiences of suffering in light thereof. The leitmotiv in my going back and forth between Christian and Jewish traditions is a sense that something did go terribly wrong in Jewish-Christian relations and that Christians have to bear the burden of this history and critically examine what role its understanding of the Christ-figure played in the emergence of anti-Judaism.","PeriodicalId":195231,"journal":{"name":"Atonement and Comparative Theology","volume":"18 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-09-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123596327","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"More Than Meets the Eye","authors":"M. Roberts","doi":"10.5422/fordham/9780823294350.003.0007","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5422/fordham/9780823294350.003.0007","url":null,"abstract":"This essay takes up the maṇḍala, as it appears in the non-dual Śaiva traditions of Kashmir, as a helpful point of comparison with the cross. It centers on two instances in which contemplating a shocking image becomes a theologically illuminating practice: Julian of Norwich’s contemplation on her vision of the crucifixion scene, and tantric meditations on Śiva in the terrible form of Bhairava. Reading these practices together yields an interpretation of the cross that disrupts the logical calculus of substitutionary atonement through sensory and imaginative encounters with an “at-one-ment” of divinization and solidarity.","PeriodicalId":195231,"journal":{"name":"Atonement and Comparative Theology","volume":"21 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-09-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131682582","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Not for Myself Alone","authors":"B. Bidlack","doi":"10.5422/fordham/9780823294350.003.0005","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5422/fordham/9780823294350.003.0005","url":null,"abstract":"This chapter puts Elizabeth Johnson’s Creation and the Cross in conversation with Numinous Treasure Daoism and the traditions that flow from it. The comparison yields a theology of penance that fills the void left by Johnson’s accompaniment interpretation of the cross. The proposal is that penance is a necessary response to sin by the Christian who participates in the voluntary suffering of Christ. Penance is not limited to the cross (penance of diminishment) but includes participating in the atoning activities of Christ’s ministry (penance of growth). These lead to atonement which is a reconciliation with the Divine Will. The comparison also points to the radically social dimension of penance: Penance is not performed for the penitent alone, but for the entire cosmos.","PeriodicalId":195231,"journal":{"name":"Atonement and Comparative Theology","volume":"47 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-09-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"120981847","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"How Q 5:75 Can Help Christians Conceptualize Atonement","authors":"Klaus von Stosch","doi":"10.2307/J.CTV1TRHSHC.6","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2307/J.CTV1TRHSHC.6","url":null,"abstract":"The chapter presents the concepts of atonement of Eleonore Stump and Thomas Pröpper as ambitious concepts for understanding atonement today in Western Christian theology and philosophy. It tries to show how both concepts cause certain problems in conceiving the human relationship with God that are typical for the debates on atonement in Western and Eastern Christianity. A certain verse of the Qur’an is presented as an intervention that can be used for an improvement of both concepts of atonement. It becomes clear how deeply the Qur’an is connected with Christian theological discourse in late antiquity and how it can be responsive to its concerns even today.","PeriodicalId":195231,"journal":{"name":"Atonement and Comparative Theology","volume":"7 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-09-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"117131390","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"More Than Meets the Eye: The Cross as Maṇḍala","authors":"M. Roberts","doi":"10.1515/9780823294374-007","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/9780823294374-007","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":195231,"journal":{"name":"Atonement and Comparative Theology","volume":"59 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-09-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125608927","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"God’s Suffering in the Hindu-Christian Gaze","authors":"Francis X. Clooney","doi":"10.5422/fordham/9780823294350.003.0006","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5422/fordham/9780823294350.003.0006","url":null,"abstract":"This essay reflects on the Christian (Catholic, Jesuit) effort in India to explain and emphasize the importance of the atoning death of Christ. Arguments in defense of the unique and saving atonement of Christ can be narrowly apologetic and exclusory, based on moral grounds (Christ as the exemplar of selflessness for the sake of others), or efficacious grounds (Christ’s taking upon himself the sins of others to free all from the penalties of sin). Beyond the exemplary and efficacious, however, the aesthetic (visual, poetic) and contemplative gaze upon the crucified still more powerfully communicates what that death is about: One ought to see Christ crucified, contemplate him in his suffering. Along the way, I also take note of some Hindu views on vicarious suffering, challenging or resonating with fundamental Christian sentiments and commitments. The essay concludes that a recognition of the power of the aesthetic and contemplative appropriation of Christ’s death invites a certain mutuality and also a Christian appreciation of the suffering of divine persons in certain strands of Hinduism.","PeriodicalId":195231,"journal":{"name":"Atonement and Comparative Theology","volume":"51 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-09-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132354030","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"More Than Meets the Eye:","authors":"M. Robinson","doi":"10.2307/j.ctv1trhshc.9","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctv1trhshc.9","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":195231,"journal":{"name":"Atonement and Comparative Theology","volume":"22 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-06-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128281291","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}