caa a22 4500 388023074 CHVBK 20180307124929.0 cr unu---uuuuu 161130e199802 xx s 000 0 eng 10.1017/S0036930600050018 doi S0036930600050018 pii (NATIONALLICENCE)cambridge-10.1017/S0036930600050018 Hunsinger George Princeton Theological Seminary, CN 821, Princeton, NJ 08540, USA The Politics of the Nonviolent God: Reflections on René Girard and Karl Barth [Elektronische Daten] [George Hunsinger] Doctrines of the atonement in Christian theology, as Marlin E. Miller has pointed out, ‘usually limit their concern to reconciliation with God and, at most, consider reconciliation with others a secondary consequence of reconciliation with God'. Too often, in other words, the vertical aspect of reconciliation is allowed to overshadow its horizontal aspect. The vertical aspect of the atonement as it pertains directly to God is often treated in isolation as if its ethical implications were of no great importance. The reverse defect, however, would also appear to be widespread. Christian ethics as we know it today often seems to proceed as if the atoning work of Christ were of little or no relevance to its deliberations on human affairs. The social or horizontal aspect of reconciliation thereby eclipses its vertical aspect. Yet if the cross of Christ is indeed the very center of the center of the Christian gospel, as the church has historically believed, then how can it fail to determine the substance of Christian ethics as well as that of Christian theology? Moreover, how can the centrality of the cross fail to orient them both in any attempt to specify their inner unity, order and differentiation? Copyright © Scottish Journal of Theology Ltd 1998 Scottish Journal of Theology Cambridge University Press 51/1(1998-02), 61-85 0036-9306 51:1<61 1998 51 SJT https://doi.org/10.1017/S0036930600050018 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1017/S0036930600050018 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Hunsinger George Princeton Theological Seminary, CN 821, Princeton, NJ 08540, USA NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Scottish Journal of Theology Cambridge University Press 51/1(1998-02), 61-85 0036-9306 51:1<61 1998 51 SJT CC0 http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0 nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-cambridge