Tag: Sacrificial

Lamb of the Free Recovering the Varied Sacrificial Understandings of Jesus’s Death


Free Download Andrew Remington Rillera, "Lamb of the Free: Recovering the Varied Sacrificial Understandings of Jesus’s Death"
English | ISBN: 1666703044 | 2024 | 356 pages | EPUB | 2 MB
Lamb of the Free analyzes the different sacrificial imagery applied to Jesus in the NT in light of the facts that (a) there is no such thing as substitutionary death sacrifice in the Torah-neither death nor suffering nor punishment of the animal has any place in the sacrificial system-and (b) there are both atoning and non-atoning sacrifices. Surprisingly, the earliest and most common sacrifices associated with Jesus’s death are the non-atoning ones. Nevertheless, when considering the whole NT, Jesus is said to accomplish all the benefits of the entire Levitical system, from both atoning and non-atoning sacrifices and purification. Moreover, all sacrificial interpretations of Jesus’s death in the NT operate within the paradigm of participation, which is antithetical to notions of substitution. The sacrificial imagery in the NT is aimed at grounding the exhortation for the audience to be conformed to the cruciform image of Jesus

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Neoliberal Citizenship Sacred Markets, Sacrificial Lives


Free Download Luca Mavelli, "Neoliberal Citizenship: Sacred Markets, Sacrificial Lives"
English | ISBN: 0192857584 | 2022 | 304 pages | PDF | 8 MB
With cosmopolitan illusions put to rest, Europe is now haunted by a pervasive neoliberal transformation of citizenship that subordinates inclusion, protection, and belonging to rationalities of value. Against the backdrop of four major crises – Eurozone, refugee, Brexit, and the COVID-19 pandemic – this book explores how neoliberal citizenship rewrites identities and solidarities in economic terms. The result is a sacralized market order in which those superfluous to economic needs and regarded as unproductive consumers of resources – be they undocumented migrants, debased citizens of austerity, or the elderly in care homes – are excluded and sacrificed for the well-being of the economy. Pushing biopolitical theorizing in novel directions through an investigation of the political economy of scarcity and the theology of the market,

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