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Book SynopsisTrade Review“This is a landmark work that fills a desperate need for more serious attention to philosophy and theology in the Mormon tradition.”--Matthew Bowman, author of
Christian: The Politics of a Word in AmericaTable of ContentsAcknowledgments
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Introduction: Atonement in Latter-day Saint Scripture and Thought
Part I. Scriptural and Historical Foundations
Chapter 1. Atonement in the Old Testament: Implications for Latter-day Saints
T. Benjamin Spackman
Chapter 2. Latter-day Saints and the Atonement in the New Testament
Eric D. Huntsman
Chapter 3. “He Shall Find Satisfaction Through His Knowledge”: Atonement in Early Christianity and the Middle Ages
Ariel Bybee Laughton
Chapter 4. “Atonement” in the Book of Mormon
Nicholas J. Frederick
Chapter 5. Saving the House of Israel: Collective Atonement in the Book of Mormon
Sharon J. Harris
Chapter 6. “This Perfect Atonement”: Agency, Law, Theosis, and Atonement Theology
J. B. Haws
Chapter 7. “I have, to be sure, been called to drink deep of the bitter cup”: Nineteenth-Century Latter-day Saint Women and Atonement
Jennifer Reeder
Part II. Theological Explorations
Chapter 8. “Notes on Life, Grace, and Atonement”
Adam S. Miller
Chapter 9. Atonement and Retributive Justice
Fiona Givens
Chapter 10. Relational Atonement: Groundwork
Benjamin Keogh
Chapter 11. One Prophet’s Vision of a Non-Violent Atonement: The Book of Mormon as Theological Resource
Joseph M. Spencer
Chapter 12. Enveloping Grace
Deidre Nicole Green
Bibliography
Contributors
Index
