This work argues that Christ's atonement disarms human resistance to God's love and so brings about acceptance of divine forgiveness.

• Part I: What Is Wanted, What Is Needed to Get What Is Wanted, and What Will Not Work


• 1: Methodology, Problems, and Desiderata


• 2: Guilt, Shame, and Satisfaction


• 3: The Anselmian Interpretation of the Atonement: Love, Goodness, Justice, and Forgiveness


• Part II: What Is Wanted: What It Is Not and What It Is


• 4: Union: God's Omnipresence and Indwelling


• 5: Union: God's Omnipresence and Indwelling


• 6: Willing What God Wills: Eckhart and Aquinas


• 7: Life in Grace


• Part III: What Is Needed to Get What Is Wanted and the Atonement of Christ


• 8: The Temptations of Christ and Other Stories


• 9: Perseverance: Eucharist and Suffering


• Part IV: The Desiderata for an Interpretation of the Doctrine of the Atonement


• 10: The Atonement and the Solution to the Problems of Guilt and Shame


• 11: Conclusion: The Remaining Desiderata and Final Reflection


• Bibliography

Eleonore Stump is the Robert J. Henle Professor of Philosophy at Saint Louis University. She is also Honorary Professor at Wuhan University and at the Logos Institute, St Andrews, and a Professorial Fellow at Australian Catholic University. She has published extensively in philosophy of religion, contemporary metaphysics, and medieval philosophy. Her books include Aquinas (2003) and Wandering in Darkness: Narrative and the Problem of Suffering (2010). She has given the Gifford Lectures (2003), the Wilde lectures (2006), the Stewart lectures (2009); and she will give the Stanton lectures at Cambridge in 2018. She is past president of the Society of Christian Philosophers, the American Catholic Philosophical Association, and the American Philosophical Association, Central Division; and she is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.