Actuality of Atonement

Colin E. Gunton (1941-2003) was a British systematic theologian. He made contributions to the doctrine of Creation and the doctrine of the Trinity. He was professor of Christian Doctrine at King's College London, UK from 1984 until his death.

• Introduction by Kent EilersPrefaceAcknowledgementsI. Patterns of Rationalism1. Where We Stand2. Redemption by Reason: Immanuel Kant and the Rationalism of Morality3. Translation and Reduction: F. D. E. Schleiermacher and the Rationalism of Experience4. Metaphor and Concept: Hegel and Conceptual Rationalism5. Rationalism and RationalityII. Mataphor and Theological Language1. The Dynamics of Metaphor2. Words and the World3. Words and the World4. Metaphor in Theology5. Language in ActionIII. The Battlefield and the Demons1. A Divine and Human Victory2. The Old Testament and the New3. The Language of Demons4. The Language of VictoryIV. The Justice of God: A Conversation1. Overlaps2. Anselm of Canterbury3. Beyond the Legal Metaphor4. The Justice of God5. Justice, Justification, Judgement6. Two Twentieth Century TheologiesV. Christ the Sacrifice: A Dead Metaphor?1. The Problem2. The Bible and the Metaphor3. Edward Irving and the Priestly Self-Offering of Christ4. The Logic of SacrificeVI. The Atonement and the Triune God1. Relation2. God: in the Beginning3. God: in the End4. Subjective and Objective5. Representation and Substitution6. Two Systematic QuestionsVII. The Community of Reconciliation1. Preplexity2. Truth3. Victory4. Judgement5. Forgiveness6. Community7. PraiseReferences and BibliographyIndex of Biblical ReferencesIndex of SubjectsIndex of Names