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Atonement, Justice, and Peace: The Message of the Cross and the Mission of the Church is unavailable, but you can change that!

In this substantial study, Darrin W. Snyder Belousek offers a comprehensive and critical examination of penal substitution, the most widely accepted evangelical Protestant theory of atonement, and presents a biblically grounded, theologically orthodox alternative. Attending to all of the relevant biblical texts and engaging with the full spectrum of scholarship, Belousek systematically develops a...

himself. Rather, Paul means to say that Jesus “gave himself,” that Jesus freely offered himself in death for our sake (cf. Gal 1:4; 1 Tim 2:6; Tit 2:14). As the Gospels witness, Jesus died voluntarily, not against his will, but also not by his own hand. Jesus, the Good Shepherd, does not spare his own life but rather exposes himself to danger for our sake, to the extent of laying down his life to rescue his sheep from death (John 10:11–18). Likewise, Paul says, God did not spare the life of his own
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