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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...

is “in the water.” Folly is useless, and the striving of the fool is futile; they lack the effectiveness of wisdom. The fool is pitiable and bears false witness. (Bear in mind the correlation of fools and false witnesses throughout Proverbs.) In short, if Christ has not been raised, we are fools who are still in our sins. The wisdom of God is not the way of the cross! It is the way of the resurrection through the cross. We again find ourselves in the domain of wisdom in Paul’s letter to the Philippians:
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