Love, Violence, and the Cross

Love, Violence, and the Cross
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Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Total Pages : 293
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ISBN-10 : 9781621890782
ISBN-13 : 1621890783
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Book Synopsis Love, Violence, and the Cross by : Gregory Anderson Love

Download or read book Love, Violence, and the Cross written by Gregory Anderson Love and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2010-08-01 with total page 293 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Does God use violence to redeem us? What is the relationship between divine love and violence in regard to the saving significance of the cross of Christ? In Love, Violence, and the Cross, Gregory Love dialogues with two responses to this question, while presenting a third alternative in which Jesus's death is simultaneously a crime and an element of God's saving actions. Through familiar stories in history, literature, and film, Love presents five constructive models that cumulatively affirm God's saving act in the person and work of Christ while letting go the myth of redemptive violence. They affirm redemption, but one with a different shape: Instead of exacting the absolute punishment, God redeems by "making good" God's promise to humanity to secure human life. Love argues that God is nonviolent, while retaining the core idea presented in the New Testament witnesses: that reconciliation occurs in the work of Christ, and that the cross plays a role in that divine work.


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