Atonement and Violence: A Theological Conversation.(Brief article)(Book review) From: The Christian Century | Date: November 28, 2006 | COPYRIGHT 2006 The Christian Century Foundation. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group.Copyright information

Atonement and Violence: A Theological Conversation.

Edited by John Sanders. Abingdon, 170 pp., $22.00.

This series of thoughtful essays by evangelical and Mennonite scholars explores alternatives to the Anselmian account of what Christ did to save us. Hans Boersma looks for a way to preserve some form of the substitutionary concept of the atonement but with less emphasis on violence. J. Denny Weaver ...

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