Crime & punishment.(Books)(Violence, Hospitality, and the Cross: Reappropriating the Atonement Tradition)(Book Review)

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Violence, Hospitality, and the Cross

Reappropriating the Atonement Tradition

Hans Boersma

Baker Academic, $29.99, 320 pp.

The Crucifixion of Jesus, surely one of the major dividing points in human history, has become of late an event in search of a theological purpose. Some contemporary believers and theologians, having rejected flawed interpretations of the cross--a cruel Father who demands the blood of his Son in payment for sin; a glorification of suffering that legitimizes oppression and abuse, especially of women and the poor; a reduction of Christ's life ...

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