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Cross Vision: How the Crucifixion of Jesus Makes Sense of Old Testament Violence is unavailable, but you can change that!

Renowned pastor-theologian Gregory A. Boyd tackles the Bible’s biggest dilemma. The Old Testament God of wrath and violence versus the New Testament God of love and peace—it’s a difference that has troubled Christians since the first century. Now, with the sensitivity of a pastor and the intellect of a theologian, Gregory A. Boyd proposes the “cruciform hermeneutic,” a way to read the Old...

infinite distance to enter into solidarity with our sin and to thereby take on an ugly appearance that mirrors this sin. This is why the cross is for believers both the revelation of the revolting ugliness of our sin and the revelation of the supremely beautiful God who was willing to stoop to take on this revolting ugliness. If the cross reveals what God is truly like, it also reveals what God has always been like. It’s not as if God first acquired
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