A Community Called Atonement: Living Theology (Biblia.com)

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Over the centuries the church developed a number of metaphors, such as penal substitution or the ransom theory, to speak about Christ's death on the cross and the theological concept of the atonement. Yet too often, says Scot McKnight, Christians have held to the supremacy of one metaphor over against the others, to their detriment. He argues instead that to plumb the rich theological depths of...

Bible and after the Bible, have come up with five big metaphors for atonement: incorporation (into Christ, who recapitulated Adam's life), ransom or liberation, satisfaction, moral influence, and penal substitution. Which shall we choose? Do we need to choose? Yes we do. At each spot on the course we have to take a club from the bag and use it. Again, if you begin with humans as generic Eikons, you get atonement at the generic level. But if you begin with a Mexican American female immigrant and if you

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