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The Justifying Judgement of God: A Reassessment of the Place of Judgement in the Saving Work of Christ is unavailable, but you can change that!

The argument of this book is that judgment, understood as the whole process of bringing justice, is the primary metaphor of atonement, along with other metaphors—such as victory, redemption, and sacrifice—which are subordinate to it. Judgment also provides the proper context for understanding penal substitution and the calls to repentance, baptism, Eucharist, and holiness.

‘All things considered, we do well to speak only of “something in man” which is attacked and forced on to the defensive’ (IV/3.1, p. 251). The Word of God is thus directed at human beings not because they are themselves the enemy to be defeated but because that is where the enemy is entrenched. This word is therefore still a word of grace to the human race. But it is to human ears that the word comes, for it is there that the enemy may be confronted. Having specified the location of this enemy, Barth
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