Saved by Trauma: A Psychoanalytical Reading of the Atonement
This work offers a Lacanian account of the work of Christ on the cross. It proffers a Holy Saturday theology in which God has to embrace suffering and death in its entirety in order to end the stranglehold of the world's system of sacrifice; the divine took on death as a constitutive factor. A...
| Published in: | Dialog |
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Wiley-Blackwell
[2016]
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Dialog
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| RelBib Classification: | NBC Doctrine of God NBK Soteriology NBM Doctrine of Justification ZD Psychology |
| Further subjects: | B
Atonement
B Jesus B Psychoanalysis B Sacrifice B Retribution |
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| Summary: | This work offers a Lacanian account of the work of Christ on the cross. It proffers a Holy Saturday theology in which God has to embrace suffering and death in its entirety in order to end the stranglehold of the world's system of sacrifice; the divine took on death as a constitutive factor. A reading of the atonement is constructed in which a diabolical system is shattered from within by the actions of a unique victim; it also relates the vicarious element of the atonement to the psychoanalytical concept of transference. Ultimately, this article hopes to contribute to the ongoing interaction between psychoanalysis and theology. Naturally it also hopes to influence the debate over which discursive model of the atonement is most helpful. |
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| ISSN: | 1540-6385 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Dialog
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1111/dial.12263 |