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The Death of the Messiah and the Birth of the New Covenant: A (Not So) New Model of the Atonement is unavailable, but you can change that!

In this groundbreaking book, Michael J. Gorman asks why there is no theory or model of the atonement called the “new-covenant” model. Gorman argues this understanding of the atonement was likely the earliest in the Christian tradition, dating back to Jesus himself. Gorman proposes that most models of the atonement over-emphasize the penultimate purposes of Jesus’ death and the “mechanics” of the...

Son of God. Thus, discipleship is not merely following the Son of God who accidentally or arbitrarily died, but following the one who has died because that is the fullest manifestation of the self-giving and reconciling nature of the Son of God, and thus of God himself.12 Therefore, to follow Christ in the way of the cross is more akin to participating in the reality or life or story of God—God’s narrative identity, we might say—than to following someone at a distance or even imitating a master.
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