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...

God, in short compass, is the society in which the will of God is established to transform all of life.2 The kingdom of God is more than what God is doing “within you” and more than God's personal “dynamic presence”; it is what God is doing in this world through the community of faith for the redemptive plans of God—including what God is doing in you and me. It transforms relationship with God, with self, with others, and with the world. What Jesus meant by “kingdom” opens before us like a bud blooming

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