By Gregory A. Boyd

Renowned pastor-theologian Gregory A. Boyd proposes a innovative solution to learn the Bible during this epic yet obtainable research. His "cruciform hermeneutic" stands as a problem to the sector of bible study and to all considerate Christians.

A dramatic rigidity confronts each Christian believer and interpreter of Scripture: at the one hand, we come across outdated testomony tales of God commanding horrendous violence. nevertheless, we learn the unequivocally nonviolent teachings of Jesus within the New testomony. Reconciling those has challenged Christians and theologians for 2 millennia.

Throughout Christian historical past, a variety of solutions were proposed, starting from the long-rejected rationalization that those contrasting depictions are of 2 totally diverse "gods" to contemporary social, cultural, and literary theories that try to dispel the conflict.

The Crucifixion of the Warrior God takes up this dramatic pressure and the diversity of proposed solutions in an formidable optimistic research. Over volumes, Gregory A. Boyd argues that we needs to take heavily the complete diversity of Scripture as encouraged, together with its violent depictions of God. whilst, he affirms absolutely the centrality of the crucified and risen Christ because the superb revelation of God.

Developing a theological interpretation of Scripture that he labels a "cruciform hermeneutic," Boyd demonstrates how the Bible's violent photos of God are reframed and their violence subverted whilst interpreted during the lens of the go and resurrection. certainly, whilst learn during this approach, Boyd argues that those violent depictions undergo witness to an analogous self-sacrificial nature of God that was once eventually published at the cross.

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A Question of Divine Culpability: Responding to Objections to the Principle of Redemptive Withdrawal 19. Defending Divine Genocide: The Inadequacy of Traditional Defenses of the Conquest Narrative 20. When God’s Nonviolent Plans Fail: The Cruciform Interpretation of the Conquest Narrative Part VI. The Principle of Cosmic Conflict 21. The Battle of the Gods: Cosmic Conflict and the Old Testament 22. Caught in the Cross Fire: Cosmic Conflict and the New Testament 23. When Hell Breaks Loose: Redemptive Withdrawal and Cosmic Conflict 24.

Deut 7:2, 20:16–20)? How are we to reconcile the God revealed in Christ, who with his dying breath prayed for the forgiveness of his tormenters (Luke 23:34) and who taught his disciples to forgive “seven times seventy” (Matt 18:21–22), with the OT’s portraits of God threatening a curse on anyone who extended mercy toward enemies (Jer 48:10; cf. Deut 7:2, 16; 13:8; 19:13)? And how can we possibly reconcile the God revealed in Christ, who expressed profound love for children, promising blessings on all who treated them well and pronouncing warnings for all who might harm them (Luke 18:15–17; Matt 10:42, 18:6–14), with the OT portrait of God bringing judgment on his people by having parents cannibalize their own children (Lev 26:28–29; Jer 19:7, 9; Lam 2:20; Ezek 5:9–10)?

48-1984. A. com. 2 To my brave sister, Debbie Sparrow Contents Praise for The Crucifixion of the Warrior God Abbreviations Introduction: The “Magic Eye” of the Crucified Christ Part I. The Centrality of the Crucified Christ 1. The Faith of Jacob: Wrestling With “Strange” and “Alien” Portraits of God 2. The True Face of God: The Absoluteness of the Revelation of God in Christ 3. Finding Jesus in the Old Testament: The Christocentric Hermeneutic of the Early Church 4. The Cruciform Center, Part 1: The Cross as the Supreme Revelation of God 5.

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