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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...

—and all those in Christ—are part of the community of the new covenant. As such, they have certain covenantal obligations, both vertical and horizontal. Accordingly, one of several concrete manifestations of the significance of this cruciform communal covenant-keeping in Paul is his discussion in 1 Corinthians 10 and 11:17–34 of the meaning of “the Lord’s Supper,” derived from the tradition about Jesus’ “Last Supper” that Paul has just quoted. Elsewhere I have suggested that Paul makes four key theological
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