“Through writing his biography, the criminal hopes to earn atonement for his crimes by changing the lives of troubled young people.”

“In some classical accounts of atonement, this incorporative power is discussed in terms of an exchange or substitution.”

“The truncation of each episode resounds poignantly, leaving us stranded in atonement with moral handgrips denied.”

“In Turner's Christology here, Jesus functions not as a crucified atoner, but instead as a hard-working example of labor's redemptive qualities.”