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Ausgabe: | Juli/August/2019 |
Spalte: | 805–807 |
Kategorie: | Systematische Theologie: Dogmatik |
Autor/Hrsg.: | Eikrem, Asle |
Titel/Untertitel: | God as Sacrificial Love. A Systematic Exploration of a Controversial Notion. |
Verlag: | London u. a.: Bloomsbury T & T Clark 2018. 336 S. = T & T Clark Studies in Systematic Theology. Geb. US$ 114,00. ISBN 978-0-567-67864-5. |
Rezensent: | Deidre Nicole Green |
In his broad treatment of the notion of divine sacrificial love in the Christian tradition, Asle Eikrem offers a constructive reconfiguration of self-sacrifice. This incisive and innovative analysis offers critical theological insight to scholars and practitioners alike. E. sets out to systematically explain – and also transcend – the biblical vocabulary of sacrifice in a way that coheres with an understanding of the »world as created, sustained, and brought to fulfillment by a loving God« (57). Going beyond theological critiques of divine love as self-sacrifice, which have proliferated from the Enlightenment to the present, E. seeks to »develop a conceptual scheme that allows for a far more nuanced reconstruction of the relationship between a theological semantic of sacrifice and ...
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