| Preface | 9 |
| Introduction | 13 |
| Part 1 | The Divine Face of Hospitality | |
| 1 | The Possibility of Hospitality | 25 |
| Hospitality as a Divine Virtue | |
| Levinas, Derrida, and the Impossibility of Pure Hospitality | |
| Divine Violence and Traditional Atonement Theories | |
| Violence as Harm or Injury | |
| 2 | Limited Hospitality: Election and Violence in Eternity | 53 |
| Divine Violence and Predestination | |
| Calvin and Later Calvinism on Predestination | |
| Limiting Atonement and Hospitality: John Calvin | |
| Limiting Atonement and Hospitality: The Synod of Dort | |
| Conclusion | |
| 3 | Preferential Hospitality: Election and Violence in History | 75 |
| Deuteronomy and Divine Election | |
| Hospitality and the Violence of Reprobation | |
| No Hospitality without Violence | |
| Violence and Authorial Intent | |
| Living with the Violence of Hospitality | |
| Part 2 | The Cruciform Face of Hospitality | |
| 4 | Atonement, Metaphors, and Models | 99 |
| The Linguistic Web of Metaphors | |
| Functions of Metaphors | |
| The Universality of Metaphors | |
| Using Metaphors Appropriately in Atonement Theology | |
| Relationships among Traditional Models | |
| 5 | Modeling Hospitality: Atonement as Moral Influence | 115 |
| Moral Influence and the Problem of Violence | |
| Irenaeus and the Fall | |
| Irenaeus and Recapitulation | |
| Christ as the Teacher of God | |
| Moral Persuasion and Hospitality | |
| 6 | Atonement and Mimetic Violence | 133 |
| Rene Girard: Cultural Anthropology and Nonviolence | |
| The Violence of the Scapegoat Mechanism | |
| Violence and the Development of Culture | |
| The Cross as Unmasking of Satanic Violence | |
| Ontology of Violence or Politics of Hospitality | |
| I See Satan Fall: Christus Victor Elements | |
| A Nonsacrificial Reading of the Cross | |
| 7 | Hospitality, Punishment, and the Atonement | 153 |
| The Anselmian Tradition and the Economy of Exchange | |
| Constantine and the Fall Model | |
| Substitutionary Atonement before Anselm | |
| The Violence of Atonement in Augustinian Theology | |
| St. Paul and the Possibility of Unconditional Hospitality | |
| Overcoming the Economy of Exchange | |
| 8 | Atonement, Violence, and Victory | 181 |
| Gustaf Aulen: A Lutheran Christus Victor | |
| Irenaeus: Recapitulation and Christus Victor | |
| Gregory of Nyssa: Justification of Divine Deception | |
| Recovery of the Christus Victor Theme | |
| Darby Kathleen Ray: Feminism and Deception | |
| Conclusion | |
| Part 3 | The Public Face of Hospitality | |
| 9 | The Church as the Community of Hospitality | 205 |
| The Church as the Presence of Christ | |
| Evangelical Hospitality | |
| Baptismal Hospitality | |
| Eucharistic Hospitality | |
| Penitential Hospitality | |
| Cruciform Hospitality: Salvifici Doloris | |
| 10 | Public Justice and the Hospitality of Liberation | 235 |
| Justice as a Public Category | |
| Radical Orthodoxy and the Hospitality of Public Justice | |
| Public Justice and a Theology of Liberation: Hospitality and Freedom | |
| Restorative Justice and the Hospitality of Forgiveness | |
| Epilogue: The End of Violence: Eschatology and Deification | 257 |
| Bibliography | 263 |
| Subject Index | 276 |
| Author Index | 281 |
| Scripture Index | 286 |
