solidarity.”5 At another conference shortly thereafter, she asked this question: “How do we stay in relationship with those who still find meaning in the blood?”6 It is important to place the doctrine of the atonement into the framework of the larger project of theology—an understanding of the work of Christ, the meaning of his work, and the means of its appropriation. It is important to realize that when we consider the atonement, we are thinking
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