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Christ takes our place: Rethinking atonement
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MY FAVORITE BAPTIST PREACHER, Will Campbell, was once asked to state the Christian message in ten words or less. He took eight. "We're all bastards," he said, "but God loves us anyway."' That summary-and I can't think of a better one- reminds us of how central the atonement is to Christian faith, for the atonement is about how God loves us anyway. Yet talking about atonement today seems to lead quickly into puzzles and dilemmas.
On the one hand, there are good arguments against much of what the Christian tradition has taught about the atonement. Christian theology, we are told, has too often ...
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The Art of Christ From symbolism to realism, Christianity has a long and varied visual history
; The Passion of Christ is a term that refers to the cycle...Resurrection. These events, along with Christ's miraculous birth and radical teachings...of the Passion is the suffering of Christ on the cross, that necessary penance...the sins of humankind. This is basic Christian theology, but the ...
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On Christian Theology
; On Christian Theology. By Rowan Williams. Oxford...renewal and recovery in Christ, something we come to learn...Eucharist, for example, Christ preempts our betrayal by...conversion, about being judged by Christ in the hope of renewal...
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"Christ in You": A Study in Paul's Theology and Ethics
; "Christ in You": A Study in Paul's Theology and...42.50. William B. Barcley's monograph "Christ in You" is a published 1997 Ph.D. dissertation...The study compares the expressions "in Christ" and "Christ in you" within the epistles...
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The way ahead.(Books)(The Priority of Christ: Toward a Postliberal Catholicism)(Book review)
; ...Strangest Way: Walking the Christian Path (2002). The Priority of Christ is a magnum opus. Barron...subtitle of The Priority of Christ describes Barron as moving...postliberal Catholicism. In Christian theology in the United States, the...Postliberals refuse to translate Christian ...
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The First and the Last: The Claim of Jesus Christ and the Claims of Other Religious Traditions.(Book Review)
; ...primacy, which relates non-Christian religions to Christ and the truth claims of...religions to the grace of Christ as an overarching theme...Brunner, and Gutmann), Indian Christian theology (the encounter with Hinduism...inculturation theologies (African Christian theology as ...
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Crime, Guilt, and the Punishment of Christ: Traveling another Way with Anselm of Canterbury and Richard Hooker
; Western Christian theology inherited the theory that...invites the notion that Christ's suffering and death...significance in a proper Christian account of the salvation...human race. But relishing Christ's suffering as a measurement...sound piety or authorized Christian teaching. The ...
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REVISIONING CHRISTIAN THEOLOGY IN LIGHT OF EMMANUEL LEVINAS'S ETHICS OF RESPONSIBILITY [*].
; PRECIS A revisioning of Christian theology seeks to recover the primacy...The site of a post-Holocaust Christian theology is thus the site of the ethical relation itself. A revisioned Christian theology is primordially embodied in...
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Christ in the Letters of Paul: In Place of a Christology
; HENDRIKUS BOERS, Christ in the Letters of Paul: In Place of a Christology...Gruyter, 2006). Pp. xii + 361. euro91.59. What did Christ mean for Paul? Having started from the presupposition that Christ was "a central reality that informed Paul's thought...
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Feast of Christ the King.(Opinion/Editorial)
; THE Catholic Church celebrates the feast of Christ the King this Sunday. This feast, which was...the transcendent love of God. The feast of Christ the King has roots in the Bible and in Christian tradition. The prophecies of Isaiah anticipated...
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The Churches of Christ in the Twentieth Century: Homer Hailey's Personal Journey of Faith.
; The Churches of Christ in the Twentieth Century: Homer Halley's Personal Journey of...Pentecostalism is well known, his two-volume study of the Disciples of Christ, Quest for a Christian America: A Social History of the Disciples of Christ (Nashville...
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