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...

well be the most complete statement of the atoning work that we can find in the entire New Testament. Again, the entire life of Jesus—birth, loving service, humiliating death, resurrection, and ascension—atones for cracked Eikons so that they might be led to the very presence of God in eternity. Until that time, Eikons are to live out the life God is working in them by living as Christ lived (2:13). A crux sola theory of atonement is inadequate, but not because there is something insufficient in the

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