Redemption: A Mimetic Soteriology
Published:
05 August 2025
Online ISBN:
9781531511319
Print ISBN:
9781531510541
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Peter Abelard: Commentary on Romans Peter Abelard: Commentary on Romans
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Anselm: Meditation on Human Redemption Anselm: Meditation on Human Redemption
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Gregory of Nyssa: The Fishhook Gregory of Nyssa: The Fishhook
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Chapter
5 Classic Paradigms of Redemption
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Pages
79–111
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Published:05 August 2025
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Roumas, Nicholas, 'Classic Paradigms of Redemption', Redemption: A Mimetic Soteriology (New York, NY , 2025; online edn, Fordham Scholarship Online, 22 Jan. 2026), https://doi.org/10.5422/fordham/9781531510541.003.0006, accessed 10 July 2026.
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Abstract
This chapter examines three highly developed texts representing archetypal historical forms of redemption theory: Peter Abelard’s Commentary on Romans, Anselm’s Meditation on Human Redemption, and Gregory of Nyssa’s Great Catechism. These theories of atonement are undergirded by common structures articulated by the author’s Girardian theory of the dialectic of redemption. Peter Abelard’s theory, often mischaracterized as a “moral influence” theory, is grounded in conversion and exchange; so is Anselm’s satisfaction theory. Gregory of Nyssa’s fishhook metaphor is the most articulate and, from a Girardian point of view, precise of the three theories considered.
Keywords:
Abelard, Anselm, atonement, Cross, fishhook, Gregory of Nyssa, moral influence, redemption, satisfaction
Subject
Theology
Collection:
Fordham Scholarship Online
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