The fourth and final part of Scot McKnight’s book A Community Called Atonement is the most creative stuff I’ve read under the umbrella of “atonement.” Even Scot himself writes, “I stand here on the threshold of a doorway that few enter: atonement is something done not only by God for us but also something we [...]

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In Part 3 of A Community Called Atonement “Atonement as Story: Whose Story?” I had the feeling that Scot McKnight was a skillful and knowledgable tour guide taking us to some of the most interesting “places” in the land called Atonement.
Why did Jesus choose Passover rather than Yom Kipper as the backdrop for his atoning [...]

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Part 2–Atonement and Image: With Which Image?

This part of Scot McKnight’s A Community Called Atonement I would title “Atonement Theology for Dummies.” Scot has a pleasant and peaceful style and a “new kind of scholar’s” ability for making complex theological concepts clear and accessible to the rest of us.

In an evangelical culture of rampant individualism…”you [...]

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Scot McKnight, Karl A. Olsson Professor in Religious Studies at North Park University, offers another provocative study. His recent book A Community Called Atonement (Abingdon) invites us to hear the symphonic music of the biblical metaphors for the atonement.
The guts of the book comprise four parts:
1. Atonement and Convergence: Where to Begin?2. Atonement and [...]

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Have you heard of a stereopticon?
Neither did I until I read a brief description of one in The NIV Application Commentary: Gospel of Mark by David E. Garland. (Garland was quoting an essay by Walter Wink.)
A stereopticon allows a person’s brain to receive two different images, one from each eye, at the same time. Like [...]

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A friend informed me of the latest ecclesiological technology.
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