God Is on the Cross
Author: Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Publisher: Westminster John Knox Press
Published: 2012-01-01
Total Pages: 112
ISBN-13: 0664238491
DOWNLOAD EBOOKForty stirring devotions for Lent and Easter, from Dietrich Bonhoeffer.
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What Was God Doing on the Cross?
Author: Alister E. McGrath
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
Published: 2002-06-13
Total Pages: 125
ISBN-13: 1579109934
DOWNLOAD EBOOKGreatly expanded version of a lecture given at Princeton Theological Seminary on October 22, 1990.
The Crucifixion
Author: Fleming Rutledge
Publisher: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
Published: 2015
Total Pages: 695
ISBN-13: 0802847323
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFew treatments of the death of Jesus Christ have made a point of accounting for the gruesome, degrading, public manner of his death by crucifixion, a mode of execution so loathsome that the ancient Romans never spoke of it in polite society. Rutledge probes all the various themes and motifs used by the New Testament evangelists and apostolic writers to explain the meaning of the cross of Christ. She shows how each of the biblical themes contributes to the whole, with the Christus Victor motif and the concept of substitution sharing pride of place along with Irenaeus's recapitulation model.
A Cross in the Heart of God
Author: Samuel Wells
Publisher: Canterbury Press
Published: 2020-11-30
Total Pages: 88
ISBN-13: 1786222930
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Canterbury Press Lent book for 2021 focuses on the significance of the story at the very centre of Christianity: the crucifixion. Samuel Wells writes as a theologian and pastor to explore the cross in the purposes of God and how this act brings about salvation. Three sections, each with six short chapters, explore the cross in: - the Old Testament (Covenant, Test, Passover, Atonement, Servant, Sacrifice) - the Epistles (Forgiveness, Obedience, Foolishness, Example, Reconciliation, Boast) - the Gospels (Finished, Judged, Betrayed, Pierced, Forsaken, Mocked) Written with characteristic clarity and wearing its considerable learning lightly, A Cross at the Heart of God will give readers a comprehensive understanding of the story at the heart of scripture, the central event in history and a core tenet of the Christian faith. A study guide with questions and prayers makes this ideal for Lent groups as well as individual reading.
The Crucifixion of the Warrior God
Author: Gregory A. Boyd
Publisher: Fortress Press
Published: 2017-04-17
Total Pages: 1487
ISBN-13: 1506420761
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA dramatic tension confronts every Christian believer and interpreter of Scripture: on the one hand, we encounter images of God commanding and engaging in horrendous violence: one the other hand, we encounter the non-violent teachings and example of Jesus, whose loving, self-sacrificial death and resurrection is held up as the supreme revelation of God’s character in the New Testament. How do we reconcile the tension between these seemingly disparate depictions? Are they even capable of reconciliation? Throughout Christian history, many different answers have been proposed, ranging from the long-rejected explanation that these contrasting depictions are of two entirely different ‘gods’ to recent social and cultural theories of metaphor and narrative representation. The Crucifixion of the Warrior God takes up this dramatic tension and the range of proposed answers in an epic constructive investigation. Over two volumes, renowned theologian and biblical scholar Gregory A. Boyd argues that we must take seriously the full range of Scripture as inspired, including its violent depictions of God. At the same time, we must take just as seriously the absolute centrality of the crucified and risen Christ as the supreme revelation of God. Developing a theological interpretation of Scripture that he labels a “cruciform hermeneutic,” Boyd demonstrates how Scripture’s violent images of God are completely reframed and their violence subverted when they are interpreted through the lens of the cross and resurrection. Indeed, when read through this lens, Boyd argues that these violent depictions can be shown to bear witness to the same self-sacrificial character of God that was supremely revealed on the cross.
The Seven Sayings of Jesus on the Cross
Author: Murray J. Harris
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
Published: 2016-02-18
Total Pages: 104
ISBN-13: 1498237541
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWho of us can possibly imagine the excruciating pain of being crucified? But further, who would imagine that in the midst of this ghastly punishment that brings on unrelenting headaches and mental disorientation, a crucified man would actually give thought to the needs of others? This book explores in detail the nature of crucifixion and then invites the reader to listen in stunned silence to the amazing seven sayings of Jesus of Nazareth while hanging on the cross, as he focuses his attention on others in the first three sayings, and only then on his own distressing situation. His last four sayings give expression to his utter spiritual and physical anguish and conclude with a cry of victory and then a cry in which he commits himself to God.
Creation and the Cross
Author: Johnson, Elizabeth A.
Publisher: Orbis Books
Published: 2018-02-22
Total Pages: 203
ISBN-13: 1608337324
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFull of Grace
Author: Daniel E. Paavola
Publisher:
Published: 2020
Total Pages:
ISBN-13: 9780758666833
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"This book is unique in that the author uses a diagram of a cube to convey the six "faces" of God's forgiveness: Each "face" or image of God's forgiveness is assigned to one "face" of the cube. In the introduction and conclusion of the book, the author describes how the cross is at the center of the cube because all the images of God's forgiveness are found at the cross"--
The Kingdom of God and the Glory of the Cross
Author: Patrick Schreiner
Publisher: Crossway
Published: 2018-03-15
Total Pages: 166
ISBN-13: 1433558262
DOWNLOAD EBOOK“The kingdom of heaven is like a grain of mustard seed that a man took and sowed in his field. It is the smallest of all seeds, but when it has grown it is larger than all the garden plants and becomes a tree, so that the birds of the air come and make nests in its branches.” —Matthew 13:31–32 When Jesus began his ministry, he announced that the kingdom of God was at hand. But many modern-day Christians don’t really understand what the kingdom of God is or how it relates to the message of the gospel. Defining kingdom as the King’s power over the King’s people in the King’s place, Patrick Schreiner investigates the key events, prophecies, and passages of Scripture that highlight the important theme of kingdom across the storyline of the Bible—helping readers see how the mission of Jesus and the coming of the kingdom fit together. Part of the Short Studies in Biblical Theology series.
God Crucified
Author: Richard Bauckham
Publisher: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
Published: 1999
Total Pages: 94
ISBN-13: 9780802846426
DOWNLOAD EBOOKGod Crucified presents a new proposal for understanding New Testament Christology in its Jewish context. Using the latest scholarly discussion about the nature of Jewish monotheism as his starting point, Richard Bauckham builds a convincing argument that the early Christian view of Jesus' divinity is fully consistent with the Jewish understanding of God. Bauckham first shows that early Judaism had clear ways of distinguishing God absolutely from all other reality. When New Testament Christology is read with this Jewish context in mind, it becomes clear that early Christians did not break with Jewish monotheism; rather, they simply included Jesus within the unique identity of Israel's God. In the final part of the book Bauckham shows that God's own identity, in turn, is also revealed in the life, death, and exaltation of Jesus. Originating as the prestigious 1996 Didsbury Lectures, this volume makes a contribution to biblical studies that will be of interest to Jews and Christians alike.
