Why having more clubs in our theological golf bags helps us to better finish the course.
David Neff | posted 5/20/2008 09:27AM
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Our sister publication, Books & Culture, ran a series on the atonement:
Violence and the Atonement | Perhaps no doctrine has been more central to evangelical theology, yet today among evangelicals, as among orthodox Christians more generally, one often hears that the classical understanding of this doctrine is deeply flawed, that we must "rethink the atonement." Is that really so? By Richard J. Mouw (January 1, 2001)
The Meaning of Christ's Suffering | Graphic meditation on Christ's suffering doesn't appear before the late medieval era, approximately the 14th century. Before that, the presentation is more in accord with the way Christ appears in the Gospel of John. In iconography, he reigns serene from the Cross, a victorious conqueror who has rescued us from Death. By Frederica Mathewes-Green (March 1, 2004)
Antonement: The Penal View? | Toward a trinitarian theology of atonement. By Stephen N. Williams (January 1, 2005)
Christianity Today articles by Scot McKnight include:
Five Streams of the Emerging Church | Key elements of the most controversial and misunderstood movement in the church today. (Jan. 19, 2007)
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those who doubt that the Father would give his only Son to satisfy his wrath are in denial that their and everyone elses sin is serious and that God's wrath is fully correct, fully just. That means that rightly God should take out his wrath on you! Severely! and out on me! Severely. We all have trespassed; we all have stolen from God and walked on his holy property without permission. How have you done this, you ask? You trample holy things because you feel self-righteous and justified by your own strength that God owes you his loyalty. How wrong you are! So instead of taking out his anger at you he has severely chastised his son so that the pain of one person is suffcient. That is very very kind of God to do this and very kind of Jesus to willingly submit himself for the sake of love to cover you and my horrible sin. Of these things there is no doubt!
Dayo Adeola
Posted: May 25, 2008 6:10 AM
Good work. My respose is to libereco's posted comments - If you overemphasise just one aspect of God's nature, which is love you will misunderstand God. God is as much a God of Love as he is a God of wrath, he is also a God of justice who is the highest authority but is so principled as to bind Himself with His words that is why He probably won't forgive without sacrifice. We do not have a God that has three different faces like a Greek god, He is one and the same person: He can love, He can get angry, He can demand justice and He is absolute. None of His attributes outweigh the other. I cannot convincingly tell you from the scriptures that God is more of love that He is of wrath and justice. Scot McKnight is right that the sacrifice of Jesus does not bifurcate the God of love from the God of wrath.
Jeff K
Posted: May 23, 2008 5:00 AM
Okay.. where do I find this book?! I have wept over the distortions of God present in the way that "Penal Substitution" has usually been presented, but I have also known that the sense of real rescue in Jesus' choice for the Cross is indispensable to Christian wholeness. What I have longed for it seems McKnight has systematized. Thank You God!
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