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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...

Put succinctly, getting in was a matter of grace and thus unconditional, but staying in required a human response of obedience to the precepts of the Law and was thus conditional.6 This understanding of the relationship between election and covenant holds true not only for the Judaism that held sway around the time of Jesus and Paul, but it is also the pattern of the Deuteronomic understanding of the relationship between Israel and her God. After mentioning God’s gracious election of his people,
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