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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...

view of him as capable of giving remarkably violent laws. God actually stooped to giving these violent laws. I can agree with this perspective up to the point that the accommodating activity ascribed to God does not conflict with the self-sacrificial, nonviolent, enemy-embracing love of God revealed in the crucified Christ. But insofar as any divine portrait is not consistent with this revelation, fidelity to Christ compels me to see it not as an accurate depiction of something God actually did,
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