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January 2018

January 24, 2018

Instead Of Substitution

Substitutionary atonement, however it is nuanced with terms like satisfaction, propitiation, penal substitution, et al.,...

October 2017

October 19, 2017

New Birth Transcending Atonement Theories

We can all agree on this: atonement is a gift.

October 09, 2017

The Biggest Problem For Atonement Theories?

What do you think? Thomas Andrew Bennett, in his book The Labor of God, contends the...

September 2017

September 18, 2017

“God In Labor” in Christian Theology

When Richard Bauckham, Murray Rae, and Michael Gorman lend their name to a book on...

November 2016

November 11, 2016

Passovering Your Atonement Theory

It is a fact that most atonement theories operate on the basis of (lightly understood...

October 2016

October 18, 2016

Jesus, the Evangelists, and Modern Evangelists’ Atonement Theories

Gulp. Early in NT Wright's chapter "The Story of the Rescue" (in The Day the Revolution...

September 2016

September 21, 2016

Surprised by the Cross: What If?

The narrative or the story into which one places the cross determines both the problem...

May 2016

May 09, 2016

Gospel vs. Caricature

He's done it again. Josh Butler has a second book: The Pursuing God: A Reckless, Irrational,...

March 2016

March 17, 2016

Squeamish About the Bible’s Blood Speak? (Jason Micheli)

Jason Micheli will be posting reflections on Fleming Rutledge’s new book, The Crucifixion: Understanding the...

February 2016

February 12, 2016

Fleming Rutledge and the Atonement (by Jason Micheli)

I am beyond delighted that Jason, who has spent the year in cancer treatments and...

February 09, 2016

Perplexed by Atonement Theories? The Core of it All

Once a young reader informed me with a robust confidence that the heart of the atonement...

December 2015

December 14, 2015

Atonement Wars: The Peace of John Wesley (by Wesley Walker)

Wesley Walker is a seminarian at Liberty University School of Divinity and an active member...

October 2015

October 01, 2015

Book Deal: Jesus and His Death

Baylor University Press is making the clothbound edition of Jesus and His Death available at 40%...

April 2015

April 03, 2015

Good Friday Reflection

On Good Friday we remember the story of Jesus' death. We participate in that death...

February 2014

February 25, 2014

Atonement and Divine Child Abuse

About a decade ago it became avant garde theology to contend the classical Christian theory...

January 2014

January 28, 2014

Siding with Jesus on the Cross

Making sense of the cross has been the church's business since the day Jesus died....

December 2013

December 13, 2013

For the Earliest Christians, the Cross was Central

Think about it, the two Big Ones in the church, baptism and eucharist, are participations...

August 2013

August 19, 2013

Atonement Debates

When I was a seminary student the atonement battle, as we were taught it, was...

August 01, 2013

Earliest Atonement Theories

In the deepest and earliest Christian creed, what can be called the gospel creed, here's...

April 2013

April 02, 2013

How did Jesus understand his death?

How Did Jesus Understand His Own Death? Brian Zahnd A question for Good Friday: How...

April 02, 2013

The (True?) Story of the Cross (RJS)

Holy Week culminating in Easter Sunday is the pivotal week and powerful week in the...

March 2013

March 29, 2013

Good Friday: Mary Ponders

This guest post is by Shannon Claussen: Through the Eyes of Mary I move slowly,...

November 2012

November 12, 2012

Fuller Atonement Conference

Rich Mouw, President of Fuller Seminary and notable theologian, hosted four professors at a conference...

June 2012

June 22, 2012

On Divine Child Abuse

About a decade ago it became avant garde theology to contend the classical Christian theory...

June 22, 2012

“The Wrath of God Satisfied”

The title for this post comes from the line in the hymn that has this...

May 2012

May 27, 2012

Atonement Theories Demonstrated

Here a priest seeks to demonstrate the difference between Protestant/evangelical views of atonement and the...

May 21, 2012

Atonement, Michael Gorman’s Thesis

This post is by Lee Wyatt, who blogs at Marginal Christianity. Sometimes the Answer is...

May 17, 2012

Justice and Peace — and Atonement

Darrin W. Snyder Belousek teaches philosophy and religion at Ohio Northern University and Bluffton University....

May 04, 2012

Beyond Atonement Theories

In the last decade or so atonement theories grabbed the center of theological discussion. Which...

April 2012

April 30, 2012

Kingdom and Cross

It is too easy to want kingdom and forget the cross, or make it part...