Atonement theology

Theology and the interpretation of Isaiah 53: I have, for some time, had a bee in my bonnet about the penal substitutionary atonement debate. There are those, on the one hand, who think it sits right at the indigestible core of a sound understanding of the atoning significance of Jesus’ death; and there are those, on the other, who think... (21 Jun. 2010)
Penal substitutionary atonement and narrative theology: I can recommend an astute essay on the current state of the atonement debate by Jason Hood, who is scholar in residence at Christ UMC in Memphis.1 He makes two general points. The first – a matter of systematic theology – is that despite the sustained scholarly and sub-scholarly onslaught... (12 Apr. 2010)
The punishment of Jesus: I wonder if we’re right to be quite so leery of the punishment aspect of the cross. I guess a lot of it has to do with not wanting to attribute vindictiveness, cruelty to God. Jesus’ death was an anticipation of the punishment of Israel – I suggest in my book on Romans that in Romans 8:... (28 Jan. 2010)

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Real theological thinking My friend Wes recently sent me this quotation from Henri Nouwen:Real theological thinking, which is thinking with the mind of Christ, is hard to find in the practice of the ministry. Without... (09/06/2010 - 07:13)
Response to Benjamin Burch on McLaren, Emergent, and The Coming of the Son of Man This post is a response to some questions raised by Benjamin Burch on Naznet. His remarks are part of a discussion of Brian McLaren’s recommendation of The Coming of the Son of Man and of the... (08/24/2010 - 14:44)
Trinitarian theology and mission Another Xchange session at the Christian Associates Summer Connect (see also The kingdom of God as a means to an end) attempted to address the relevance (or otherwise) of Trinitarian theology for... (08/23/2010 - 10:37)
Euangelion (briefly) on The Future of the People of God Some brief, non-analytical but very gratifying comments (let’s be honest) on The Future of the People of God from Joel Willitts at Euangelion, including the following:Wow! Read that again... (08/21/2010 - 18:46)
The kingdom of God as a means to an end Why is the ‘kingdom of God’ such a tricky theological notion? In a group discussion on ‘Kingdom Theology” at the Christian Associates Global Connect recently we managed... (08/20/2010 - 09:47)
TallSkinnyKiwi review of The Future of the People of God I gave Andrew Jones a copy of The Future of the People of God at the Christian Associates Global Connect last week and he’s read and reviewed it already. It’s a very fair and perceptive... (08/19/2010 - 13:44)
Rewriting the debate: resurrection and Romans My friend Hilary has been reading The Future of the People of God and had a question about a paragraph on page 49. Since it has reference one of the critical arguments of the book – that the... (08/19/2010 - 12:57)
Straws in the wind: why the emerging church still matters Brian LePort (Near Emmaus) suggests, not unreasonably, that the more pertinent question is not whether the emergent church has a problem with the doctrine of a final judgment (see previous post) but... (07/31/2010 - 11:58)
Does the emerging church really have a problem with a final judgment? A tweet from Andrew Jones (‘An original emerging church criticism: “Don’t conceive we crapper undergo Absolute Biblical Truth”’) led me to Pastor and Author Bob DeWaay’... (07/29/2010 - 13:51)
Paul the maker of theatrical scenery? Here’s an interesting thought. In The Hermeneutics of Doctrine (70), as part of a discussion on ‘Christian Doctrine as Dramatic Narrative’, Thiselton notes the argument of L.L.... (07/28/2010 - 13:21)
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On Transmillennialism and Kevin Beck's This Book Will Change Your World I read Kevin Beck’s This Book Will Change Your World in response to some gentle and persistent prompting from Mike Morrell. As Mike observes,... (26 May 2009)
1 Thess. 4:15-17 - The ‘rapture’ in its literary and historical setting This passage has traditionally been understood to describe an end-of-history coming of Jesus to take the church to heaven to be with God. It needs to... (18 Apr 2007)
Lk. 2:29-32 - A light for revelation to the Gentiles Simeon is a righteous and devout man who has been looking for the ‘consolation’ or ‘comforting’ (paraklēsis) of Israel. The... (22 Dec 2006)
Brian McLaren, A New Kind of Christianity: the fourth question about Jesus Question number four is ‘The Jesus Question’. The previous section had concluded with the slightly illogical assertion that our evolving... (11 Mar 2010)
Bring back doctrine, all is forgiven Anthony Thiselton’s hefty book (649 pages) The Hermeneutics of Doctrine is persuading me to reconsider my instinctive distrust of a mode of... (22 Jul 2010)

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