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What is the historical basis for today’s atonement theology? Where did it come from, and how has it evolved throughout time? In Atonement, a sterling collection of renowned biblical scholars investigates the early manifestations of this core concept in numerous ancient Jewish and Christian sources. Rather than imposing a particular view of atonement upon these texts, these specialists let the...

having their hearts strangely warmed). I have nothing against figuring out true ideas; and I am certainly in favor of the strange warming of the heart. But in the New Testament these are in service to the larger goal of new creation, the new creation which is launched in the resurrection of Jesus after the defeat of all hostile powers including death itself. This new creation will finally include the resurrection of all Jesus’s people. In the meantime it already includes their revivification by the
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