Spinoza's Religion: A New Reading of the Ethics

(Others, of course, will find it too "liberal" in the way it brackets issues like are neutral on Satan's existence would seem to have a tough row to hoe in explaining how infants and other humans who lack full moral agency are in need of sorrowful confession and the other stages of atonement Taliaferro proposes. Finally, some readers may wonder how well Taliaferro's heavily-revised (and theologically somewhat nouveau) ransom theory will play in the proverbial Peoria. In common Peorian patois, the notion of "ransom" strongly connotes (though it may not strictly entail) some form of literal "payment" for a captive's release. Can Taliaferro sell his Narnian theory as a true form of ransom theory, or has it really been revised beyond all recognition?