Atonement theology

Paul’s letter to the Romans (3:1-4:25)
In the likeness of sinful flesh: some reflections for Holy Week
The shortfall in Christ’s sufferings: mystical union, messianic woes, the hardships of evangelism, or none of the above?
Paul’s narrative world: roughly why I disagree with N.T. Wright about the meaning of “propitiation by his blood”
Gentiles are saved by the salvation of Israel? Really? What about this, that, and the other?
Review of Matthew Bates, Gospel Allegiance. What was the gospel?
Questions about the death of Jesus
The gospel for Jews and Gentiles according to Romans: a summary
If they do these things when the wood is green, what will happen when it is dry?
The salvation of the Jews by the “Author of life”—not quite in the way you might think
Another reason to think that Isaiah’s suffering servant is the generation of Jews which grew up in Babylon
Stephen Burnhope: Atonement and the New Perspective
The narrative logic of salvation from the point of view of a Jewish apostle
Gentiles needed the death of Jesus as much as Jews did, but for different reasons
More on the narrative logic of salvation: “we have redemption through his blood”
The logic of salvation for Jews and Gentiles in Paul
Did God die on the cross? Part 2
Did God die on the cross? Part 1
Narrative substitutionary atonement in Luke: Jesus and the sins of Barabbas
He did not descend into hell… and what really did happen at Easter
A quiz on the atonement (in narrative-historical perspective)
Jesus and redemptive violence
Substitutionary versus anti-substitutionary theories: both lose, one more than the other
A commentary on Owen Strachan’s less than biblical defence of the atonement
A dead guy going to heaven is not metaphysics?
Jesus the great high priest: no deep magic involved
A pragmatic non-theory of the atonement
The death of Jesus: not as difficult to understand as you might think
The place of the cross in the biblical narrative
Schweitzer gets redemption and eschatology half right
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