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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...

Christ’s work is always greater than the human attempts to describe it, and theologians must not make graven images of our portraits of atonement. Second, at no point in my study will one part of Christ’s mosaic body be played off against another. Once again, the head cannot say to the feet, “I have no need of you!” (1 Cor 12:21). This too has sometimes been a weakness in both reductionist and relativized (or disconnected) treatments of Christ’s work. The overarching claim to be made in this book
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