Atonement through blood in Leviticus

Transgression and Atonement

This paper presents an approach to modeling social transgressions in agent based systems. The approach is intended to be abstract enough that it may be used with many different theories of transgression, apology, forgiveness, etc. We discuss an implementation of this approach in PMFserv, an agent based socio-cognitive modeling framework.

The Quasi-Alien in Leviticus 25

Introduction In 1966, Hubert H. Humphrey, the vice president of the United States at the time, published an article in the journal Law and Contemporary Problems. The title of his article was “The War on Poverty.” Humphrey’s article distinguished between two different approaches to the problem of poverty in American society. The first approach, he said, could be characterized by the statement in...

Atonement: the Rite of Healing

There has recently been a number of books on the Christian understanding of atonement. What has been fascinating for me is the extent to which these books do, or more often do not, use the Old Testament material on atonement as the basis for what they have to say. The New Testament speaks in a variety of ways about atonement, and this has become the centre of Christian dogmatics; but this ‘aton...

The Experimental Techniques in Ian McEwan’s Atonement

Ian McEwan, together with Martin Amis, is now the best-known and controversial contemporary British novelist. Atonement is regarded as the best of McEwan books and is shortlisted for the Booker Prize. It displays features of modernism and postmodernism, with the application of stream of consciousness, multiple voices, montage and flashbacks, becoming increasingly experimental in form.

Beyond sacrifice: Milton and the atonement