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Participating in Christ: Explorations in Paul’s Theology and Spirituality is unavailable, but you can change that!

Renowned scholar Michael Gorman examines the important Pauline theme of participation in Christ, a topic of great interest in New Testament circles and one that is central to Paul’s theology and spirituality. Building on his previous work on the topic, Gorman carefully examines participation in Christ in Paul’s letters. His book explores this theme across the letters and includes in-depth...

Debates about the “mechanics,” or specific means and meaning, of the atonement have swirled around the church for centuries. Moreover, several new theories, or “models,” of the atonement, in addition to the three or four principal ones, have been proposed in recent times.17 Whatever one’s preferred model of the atonement, what is often lacking in the models is any application of the model to actual life. For Paul, however, the cross is more than the source of salvation; it is also its shape. Paul
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