Violence, Hospitality, and the Cross: Reappropriating the Atonement Tradition - Hardcover

Boersma, Hans

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0801027209 ISBN 13: 9780801027208

Publisher: Baker Academic, 2004

Synopsis

The cross is central to understanding Christian theology. But is it possible that our postmodern setting requires a new model of understanding the cross? Hans Boersma's Violence, Hospitality, and the Cross proposes an understanding of the atonement that is sensitive both to the Christian tradition and to the postmodern critiques of that tradition. His fresh approach draws on the rich resources of the Christian tradition in its portrayal of God's hospitality in Jesus Christ.

About this title

About the Author:

Hans Boersma (PhD, University of Utrecht) holds the J. I. Packer Chair of Theology at Regent College in Vancouver, British Columbia. He is the author or editor of several books, including A Hot Pepper Corn: Richard Baxter's Doctrine of Justification in Its Seventeenth-Century Context of Controversy.

Review:

"This is generous evangelicalism at its best....Boersma does a fine job of bringing Scripture and tradition to bear on the contemporary situation all for the sake of the church's participation in the divine hospitality."

About this edition

• Publisher: Baker Academic
• Publication date: 2004
• ISBN 10: 0801027209
• ISBN 13: 9780801027208
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 288