His Jesus Creed blog was one of the first I followed religiously, and books like The Blue Parakeet, The King Jesus Gospel, and A Community
Called Atonement remain among some of my most recommended.
Cleveland draws from all sorts of sources — from Scot McKnight's A Community
Called Atonement, to college football, to multiple scientific studies and surveys, many of which are quite colorful and fascinating.
It's
called The Atonement of God, and in it, I present 10 areas of theology that were affected in my own life when I came to understand the truth I am about to present to you today.
We say, then, that the suffering and dying of Jesus is at the centre of the redemptive action
we call atonement.
I myself do not have any theory of what
we call the Atonement.
Not exact matches
It has been suggested that satisfaction theories of the
Atonement and the correlative understanding of the Christian life as a life of interiority became the rule during the long process we
call the Constantinian settlement.
If she got an answer to that prayer and others she could believe in Jesus Christ, His
atonement, His resurrection, His
call to share what you know about His gospel, to serve, feed, support others regardless of their beliefs.
The theories of the
Atonement so far mentioned are all sometimes
called «objective», which is to say that Jesus» death on the cross made an objective factual difference to sin and to human beings» relationship to God.
Gerstenberger wants to explain what he has
called Leviticus's technology of «
atonement» by associating it with other «
atonement situations» in the Bible.
Lately something has puzzled and astonished me consciously that had been festering in my mind for many years: How did it happen that one particular theory of the
atonement, the so -
called Latin or Anselmic or substitutionary or satisfaction theory, came to dominate the entire Christian religion in its Western expression?
Calling the Web app eScapegoat is a play on a practice observed during biblical times when the Temple still stood in Jerusalem and sacrifices were offered for
atonement.
One of the searching interpretations of
atonement in the twentieth century was given by the philosopher Josiah Royce in The Problem of Christianity.8 Royce's philosophic idealism was built upon the tragic aspect of life and what he
called the «moral burden of the individual».
It was about substitutionary
atonement, or as he
called it, «the great switcheroo.»
A fervently religious child, with a pension for impromptu lectures to classmates about substitutionary
atonement and eternal security, this news came as a bit of blow, but I supposed I could find my
calling elsewhere.
In what has been
called the Classic Idea of the
atonement, 12 the cross is seen as the last, decisive battle - ground between God and all the spiritual powers of evil, a conflict in which God, through his Son Jesus Christ, won a final and eternal victory against all the evil that threatens and plagues men.
One central element in the Christian gospel is the affirmation that in a very real way God deals with that situation — this is the meaning of what we
call redemption or salvation or
atonement.
Highlights for me included: 1) Belcher's
call in Chapter 3 to find common ground in classic / orthodox Christianity (the Apostle's Creed, the Nicene Creed, and the Athanasian Creed) which, if applied, would dramatically reduce some of the name -
calling and accusations of heresy that have been most unhelpful in the discussion between the emerging and traditional camps, 2) Belcher's fabulous treatment of postmodernism and postfoundationalism in Chapter 4, where he rightly explains that when talking about postmodernism, folks in the emerging church and the traditional church are using the same term to refer to two completely different things, and where he concludes that «a third way rejects classical foundationalism and hard postmodernism,» and 3) Belcher's fair handling of the
atonement issue in Chapter 6, in which he clarifies that most emergering church leaders «are not against
atonement theories and justification, but want to see it balanced with the message of the kingdom of God.»
«The real and only permanent solution to the problem of anti-semitism,» Maccoby writes, «is to dismantle the Pauline Christian myth of
atonement» and what he
calls «the mythic resurrection.»
From all appearances this gentleman does not belong to the so -
called world of society, for he respects God's Word, believes in the
atonement through Christ, and bears himself in humility and gentleness.
However, it was Chalke himself who provided some of the headlines in the last ten years, as his views on penal
atonement and homosexuality led to
calls from some church leaders to have him removed from the Evangelical Alliance.
At any rate, what we
call theories of the
atonement have been many and varied.
Ronan, who is no stranger to the awards circuit after starring in films like 2015's Brooklyn and 2007's
Atonement, is earning praise for her latest role in Lady Bird, while Chalamet, who acts alongside Ronan in the Greta Gerwig - directed film, has been the subject of awards buzz for his part in
Call Me by Your Name.
Dodd — «The Fate of the Furious,» «Jurassic World» Amrit Pritam Dutta — «Kochadaiiyaan,» «Slumdog Millionaire» Ezra Dweck — «Black Mass,» «Metallica Through the Never» William Files — «Deadpool,» «Star Wars: The Force Awakens» Bernard Gariépy Strobl — «Arrival,» «War Witch» Mariusz Glabinski — «The Wall,» «The Fifth Estate» Peter Grace — «Hacksaw Ridge,» «The Square» Gu Changning — «Monk Comes Down the Mountain,» «Caught in the Web» Robert Hein — «Café Society,» «Blue Jasmine» Douglas Jackson — «Logan,» «Schindler's List» Jonathan Klein — «Live by Night,» «Argo» Claude La Haye — «Arrival,» «The Red Violin» Robert Mackenzie — «Hacksaw Ridge,» «The Grandmaster» Tony Martinez — «Carol,» «Revolutionary Road» Steve A. Morrow — «La La Land,» «Up in the Air» Jean - Paul Mugel — «Jackie,» «Paris, Texas» Cheryl Nardi — «Captain America: Civil War,» «Brave» Al Nelson — «Alice through the Looking Glass,» «Jurassic World» Marc Orts — «A Monster
Calls,» «Che» Daniel Pagan — «All Eyez on Me,» «Frost / Nixon» Geoffrey Patterson — «Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen,» «Twister» Margit Pfeiffer — «Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice,» «Warrior» Becki Ponting — «Philomena,» «
Atonement» Andy Potvin — «The Hunger Games: Catching Fire,» «Life of Pi» Richard Quinn — «Rogue One: A Star Wars Story,» «Gone Girl» Jacob Ribicoff — «Manchester by the Sea,» «The Wrestler» Robert L. Sephton — «Smurfs: The Lost Village,» «Remember the Titans» Guntis Sics — «Kong: Skull Island,» «Moulin Rouge» Jane Tattersall — «Barney's Version,» «American Psycho» Steven Ticknor — «Spider - Man: Homecoming,» «The Lincoln Lawyer» Derek Vanderhorst — «Hidden Figures,» «The Ides of March» Bryon E. Williams — «Kubo and the Two Strings,» «The Hunger Games: Mockingjay (Parts 1 & 2)» Katy Wood — «Guardians of the Galaxy Vol.
And Ronan, who came to prominence in a considerably better McEwan adaptation
called «
Atonement,» gives eloquent voice and conviction to Florence's repression.
I'm a big fan of much of Cattle
Call's work since the quirky PS2 sleeper Tsugunai:
Atonement, so seeing the familiar color palette and simple but intriguing battle system also had me smiling throughout.
Campbell
calls this stage the
Atonement.
In a cruel twist of irony, today, the
atonement that Minidoka Monument represents is threatened by a so -
called «farm.»