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Sto caricando le informazioni... The Mosaic of Atonement: An Integrated Approach to Christ's Work (edizione 2019)di Joshua M. McNall (Autore)
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The Mosaic of Atonement offers a fresh and integrated approach to historic models of atonement. While modern treatments of the doctrine have tended toward either a defensive hierarchy, in which one model is singled out as most important, or a disconnected plurality, in which multiple images are affirmed but with no order of arrangement, this book argues for a reintegration of four famous "pieces" of atonement doctrine through the governing image of Christ-shaped mosaic. Unlike a photograph in which tiny pixels present a seamless blending of color and shape, a mosaic allows each piece to retain its recognizable particularity, while also integrating them in the service of a single larger image. If one stands close, one can identify individual squares of glass or tile that compose the greater picture. And if one steps back, there is the larger picture to be admired. Yet in the great mosaics of age-old Christian churches, the goal is not for viewers to construct the image, as in a puzzle, but to appreciate it. So too with this mosaic of atonement doctrine. While no one model is set above or against the others, the book notes particular ways in which the "pieces"--the feet, heart, head, and hands--mutually support one another to form a more holistic vision of Christ's work. "This is my body," Jesus said to his followers, and by reintegrating these oft-dismembered aspects of atonement, we will note fresh ways in which it was given for us. Non sono state trovate descrizioni di biblioteche |
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 Google Books — Sto caricando le informazioni...GeneriSistema Decimale Melvil (DDC)234.5Religions Christian doctrinal theology Salvation; Soteriology RepentanceClassificazione LCVotoMedia: (5)
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McNall presents an enthralling portrait of the atonement of Christ, bringing together models that are often viewed at odds, into a coherent "mosaic." Four atonement models are explored: recapitulation, penal (vicarious) substitution, Christus Victor, and moral influence. Each model may be viewed, says McNall, not as more important than another, but as interrelated parts of a whole, each building upon and leading into the other. The models may be understood as analogous to a human body founded on feet, given life by the heart, guided by the head, and reaching out in the arms and hands -- these four body components each associated with the four models respectively.
McNall plumbs the depths of theological history as well as addressing contemporary questions for and challenges to each model, as well as proposing a vista from which to avoid placing atonement models in competition but also by which to view them all as crucial to the work of Father, Son, and Spirit in bringing salvation through Christ. In this exploration, ancient understandings are shown to be relevant to contemporary needs, and modern critiques (especially of penal substitution) are revealed to be either false or overstated. One is left with high regard for each atonement model and its importance for proclaiming the gospel. And of particular interest for Pentecostals (my tradition) may be McNall's emphasis on the Spirit as crucial to the working out of atonement in the Christian community and individual believer.
Overall a careful and compelling presentation for appreciating the atonement as multi-dimensional and yet unified in what is accomplished by the triune God.
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