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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...

the obedient, true human being, Jesus Christ is able to place us once again on the road from which we have strayed, so that we are restored in fellowship with God and receive incorruption and immortality. The incarnation functions as the prelude to Christ’s obedient life of recapitulation. All the same, of course, the incarnation is emphatically present as a necessary precondition for the restoration of fellowship with God. And although it does not give immortality all by itself, nonetheless, as
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