Craig’s Anti–Platonism, Lowe’s Universals, and Christ’s Penal Substitutionary Atonement

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.

Beyond sacrifice: Milton and the atonement

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...

Linguistic diversity and universals

Determinants of Penal Policies