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Let the Great Games Begin
Today the college football season takes a decided turn to some truly interesting games that [...]
Mutuality and Kinship with Those on the Margins
Father Gregory "Greg" Joseph Boyle (1954) is an American Jesuit priest. He is the founder and Director of Homeboy Industries and the [...]
Leaders Who Focus on People, Not Just Ideas
Henri Nouwen (1932-1996) was a Dutch-born Catholic priest and writer who is best known as [...]
The Scapegoat Who Finally Removes All Our Sin – Part Two
The four Gospels describe in specific detail how Jesus died during the Passover Feast, not [...]
The Scapegoat Who Finally Removes All Our Sin, Part One
I hear numerous objections to what I’ve proposed about how to understand the atoning sacrifice [...]
The Cruciform God
When the concept of the atonement is primarily understood as divine forgiveness we have been [...]
The Depth & Extent of God’s Forgiveness Displayed in the Atonement – Part 2
Over the centuries theologians have developed numerous models for expressing the saving significance of Jesus' [...]
The Depth and Extent of God’s Forgiveness is Displayed in the Atonement – Part 1
Yesterday I wrote about atonement as forgiveness. I showed that there truly is a substitionary [...]
The Atonement and the Grace of Forgiveness
If you follow the idea of atonement that I began to develop yesterday, namely that [...]
Atonement Demands a Payment
The Scriptures seem to be fairly clear in their teaching about the death of Christ [...]
What Does Christ’s Victory Mean for Understanding His Death?
The New Testament is filled with material concerning the victory of Christ over the powers [...]
How the Enlightenment Took the Church Away from Jesus & Him Crucified
The ancient church did not debate ideas about “appeasing the wrath of God through Christ’s [...]
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