At the least-visited museum in Rome, a marble cross caught my attention. It depicts the Madonna and Child and the warm tangle of their intimacy.
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The Death of the Messiah and the Birth of the New Covenant, by Michael J. Gorman
For there to be a heresy about the cross, there would have to be an orthodoxy about it. Michael Gorman argues that contentions over how Jesus saves lead to an inadequate grasp of what the Passion means and does.
As a child I was afraid of the cross. Crosses with Jesus’ bloody body terrified me, but even the empty ones I saw in my father’s Lutheran church gave me shivers. My father was a liberal Protestant, but my grandfather, who was also a minister, held a more traditional view of atonement theology.
Our fall books issue includes annotated lists of essential titles on Revelation, evangelism and theodicy.
Some questions won't go away. The creed says Jesus was crucified "for us," but what do those two little words mean?
Our fall books issue includes annotated lists of top titles on the book of Job, atonement and children's ministry.
Atonement
An annotated list of top titles on atonement.
