My Articles
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 [...]
The Danger of a Book-oriented Approach to Faith
The Book-oriented approach to Christian faith, an approach that became particularly central during the Enlightenment, [...]
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