Loading…

The Mosaic of Atonement: An Integrated Approach to Christ’s Work is unavailable, but you can change that!

The Mosaic of Atonement offers a fresh and integrated approach to historic models of atonement. While modern treatments of the doctrine have tended toward either a defensive hierarchy, in which one model is singled out as most important, or a disconnected plurality, in which multiple images are affirmed but with no order of arrangement, this book argues for a reintegration of four famous...

Two Popular Extremes Reductionism ⟷ Relativism (Defensive hierarchy) (Disconnected plurality) My claim is that there is another option alongside ranked reductionism and relativistic disorder when dealing with these pieces. Theologians need not embrace either defensive hierarchy or disconnected plurality with regard to models of atonement. Indeed, we shouldn’t.16 While multiple models are necessary, it is also important to understand how these models interlock and support one another—like pieces
Page 21