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redemptive violence

Can violence ever serve a redemptive purpose?

August 31, 2018 by Randal

Rene Girard was a literary critic and theologian who developed a very influential non-violent reading of the atonement. According to the penal substitution model of atonement, God the Father reconciles us to himself through the violent death of his innocent son who absorbs the divine wrath properly owing to us. In direct opposition to this […]

Filed Under: The Tentative Apologist Tagged With: atonement, greater goods, problem of evil, redemptive violence, Rene Girard

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