Why the Cross?: Divine Friendship and the Power of Justice

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Subject(s): Jesus Christ -- Crucifixion | Lonergan, Bernard J. F | Atonement | Theology of the cross
The Exigencies of Secular Culture
Analysis of Secular Culture: Charles Taylor
Beyond Taylor: The Analyses by Michael Buckley and Nicholas Boyle
The Contribution of Bernard J. F. Lonergan
"But We Preach Christ Crucified"
Introducing the Law of the Cross
The Centrality of the Cross: A Biblical Argument
Transpositions: What It Takes, Where It Takes Us
The Call for Renewed Theology of the Cross
Augustine's "Justice over Power": The Humble
Love That Restores Order
Christ in De Trinitate: An Overview
The Human Condition
Non Autem Potentia Sed Iustitia
Atonement: Atone-ment, At-one-ment, and Attunement
Back to "Justice over Power"
"Justice over Power" in Light of Augustine's De Ciuitate Dei
Historical, Social-Political, and Sacramental
Elucidations of True Justice
Augustine's Metaphysics of Evil
"Justice over Power" as Informative, Transformative, and Reformative
Through the Looking Glass: Evaluating Augustine's Account
The Justice of the Cross in St. Thomas: In Nobis, Sed Non Sine Nobis
Introducing the Significance of Satisfaction in Aquinas' Soteriology
Satisfaction: The Heart of Aquinas' Explanatory
Account of the Cross
Clarifying the Human Problem
The Problem and the Solution
St. Thomas on Christ's Satisfaction: When Justice Meets Charity
Justice and Christ's Satisfaction
Charity and Christ's Satisfaction
Where Justice and Charity Meet
From "Justice over Power" to "Good Will over Bad Will"
Lonergan's Transposition: A Turn to Historically Conscious Interiority
The Formative Influence of Aquinas and Augustine
Lonergan's Anthropologische Wende
The Threefold Dynamism of Human History
Developing Classical Soteriology Away from Classicism
The Law of the Cross: Transformation of Evil into Good
The Meaning of the Law of the Cross
Sacramental Analogy
Analogy of Friendship
Conversion as a Withdrawal from Inauthenticity to Authenticity
Dialectic "Authenticity over Inauthenticity" and the Law of the Cross
Historically Minded Systematics: Three Explanatory Elements
The Ontological Element
The Dynamic-Pneumatological Element
The Existential-Christological Element: Mutual Self-Mediation
A Historically Minded Lex Crucis? Moving toward a Proposal
Cur Deus Cruciatus? New Wine into New Wineskins
The Justice of the Cross: Changing the Odds
Generalized Emergent Probability
The Orderly Communication of Divine Friendship
From Possibility to Actuality
Transformative Justice as Christomorphic and Spirit-Empowered

"In this book, Ligita Ryliškytė addresses what is arguably the most important and profound question in systematic theology: What does it mean for humankind to be saved by the cross? Offering a constructive account of the atonement that avoids pitting God's saving love against divine justice, she provides a biblically-grounded and philosophically disciplined theology of the cross that responds to the exigencies of postmodern secular culture. Ryliškytė draws on Bernard J. F. Lonergan's development of the Augustinian- Thomist tradition to argue that the justice of the cross concerns the orderly communication and diffusion of divine friendship. It becomes efficacious in the dynamic order of the emergent universe through the transformation of evil into good out of love. Showing how inherited theological traditions can be transposed in new contexts, Ryliškytė's book reveals a Christology of fundamental significance for contemporary systematic theology, as well as the fields of theological ethics and Christian spirituality"-- Provided by publisher.