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Adam Johnson has already established himself as a leading theologian of the atonement, but in The Reconciling Wisdom of God: Reframing the Doctrine of the Atonement he considers the atonement in light of God’s wisdom, rather than simply as an act of justice. By studying the atonement through the lens of God’s infinite wisdom, Johnson is able to speak meaningfully across the lines between the...

“inscrutable” (Rom 11:33), he has showered himself upon us in Christ and his Spirit. To develop a theory of the atonement—to seek to understand the work of Christ by delighting in the enacted wisdom of God—is to share in the blessings God has for us, to fulfill Paul’s longing that we might share in the wisdom of God.7 Put differently, the wisdom of God enacted in Christ does not rest contented in being effective or in bringing us blessings. It does not resent our questions or our attempts to understand,
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