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Book SynopsisNew approaches to a central area of Latter-day Saint belief The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and other Christians have always shared a fundamental belief in the connection between personal salvation and the suffering, death, and resurrection of Jesus Christ. While having faith in and experiencing the atonement of Christ remains a core tenet for Latter-day Saints, some thinkers have in recent decades reconsidered traditional understandings of atonement.
Deidre Nicole Green and Eric D. Huntsman edit a collection that brings together multiple and diverse approaches to thinking about Latter-day Saint views on this foundational area of theology. The essayists draw on and go beyond a wide range of perspectives, classical atonement theories, and contemporary reformulations of atonement theory. The first section focuses on scriptural and historical foundations while the second concentrates on theological explorations. Together, the contributors evaluate what is
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“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 America
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Acknowledgments
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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
