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Violence, Hospitality, and the Cross: Reappropriating the Atonement Tradition is unavailable, but you can change that!

The cross is central to any understanding of Christian theology. But what is the primary significance of the cross: God’s victory over death and hell? The moral example of a righteous sufferer? God’s Son taking the punishment for the world’s sin? Or is it possible that in our postmodern setting these traditional views of the atonement are irrelevant and outmoded? In this important study, Hans...

models themselves. I will restrict myself, therefore, to some tentative comments on the relationship between the various models, touching on their contents only insofar as it is necessary to discuss their relationship. At the heart of this study lies the conviction that the cross expresses the hospitality of God. This assumes that whatever model we use to describe the atonement, the welcoming love of God must shine through in it. That is to say, an internal criterion for the viability of each of
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