Episode 286: The Imagery of Sacrifice, Biblical and Classical. The Spiritualizing and Deliteralizing of Sacrifice.

The movement of religious thought from sacrifice as atonement to sacrifice as at-onement, outward legalistic act to an inward movement of the heart, from placating God or a god’s wrath to a self-sacrifice in the name of love. The two medieval theories of Christ’s Atonement as the sacrificial Lamb of God.