Responsibility and atonement / Richard Swinburne.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Swinburne, Richard, author.

Series:

Clarendon paperbacks.

Clarendon paperbacks

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Atonement.

Responsibility.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (213 pages)

Place of Publication:

Oxford [England] : Clarendon Press ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1989.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

When we do good or harm to each other, we acquire merit or guilt; deserve praise or blame, reward or punishment, and may need to make atonement, or receive forgiveness or mercy from others. This account shows how these moral concepts apply to humans in their dealings with each other, then applying the results of its findings.

Contents:

Part 1. Responsibility : Moral goodness ; Moral responsibility and weakness of will ; The relevance of free will ; Merit and reward ; Guilt, atonement, and forgiveness ; Punishment ; Man's moral condition

Part 2. Its theological consequences : Morality under God ; Sin and original sin ; Redemption ; Sanctification and corruption ; Heaven and hell.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

0-19-159855-0

0-19-152002-0

1-282-05202-0

9786612052026

0-585-16009-0

OCLC:

191827245