The Crucifixion: Understanding the Death of Jesus Christ Fleming Rutledge Eerdmans Reviewed by Mark Friesen What is the subject? In this monumental work, the author attempts the first “major study…
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“Well done” to the board of faith and life (BFL) for inviting Mennonite Brethren speakers to address the conference! There is profound wisdom and learning within our Canadian family, and…
The Nonviolent AtonementAuthor: J. Denny WeaverEven J. Denny Weaver acknowledges that the proposal he makes in The Nonviolent Atonement “may seem audacious.” Weaver is an American Mennonite theologian and professor emeritus at Bluffton University in Ohio. The Nonviolent Atonement is his attempt to describe the atoning work of Christ in light of his conviction that God is nonviolent. For Weaver, there is no place in discussion of atonement theology for the idea that God punished Jesus, or that Jesus died for human sins to satisfy God’s justice.
Christ died and rose for our salvation. But what does that mean? How does it work? The biblical doctrine of the atonement has been the subject of discussion and debate…