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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...

if necessary, but not to inflict it (13:9–10). The new-covenant people is a community of peace, and specifically of nonviolence.66 Our primary goal in the preceding two chapters has been to rediscover the features of a new-covenant model of the atonement in various parts of the New Testament. The basic claim has been that the New Testament writers we have considered view the several aspects of the promised new covenant as having been effected by the death of Jesus.
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