The prophet Isaiah said it so beautifully, hundreds of years before Jesus’ death: “We all, like sheep, have gone astray, each of us has turned to our own way; and the LORD has laid on him the iniquity ...

A letter to the editor published the week before last on obeying God’s law over man’s law pretty much checked off the usual list of evangelical Christian talking points. “Through the miraculous birth, ...

Looking back to history to find yet another approach to atonement will not solve the problem, but a reconsideration of the physical or mystical theory of how Christ saves us might contribute to more ...

My mentor in seminary, Michael Kinnamon, liked to tell students the best dialogue takes place when we engage our opponents at their best, not at their worst. For good or ill, I’ve since taken ...

Perhaps our most famous Christian account of redemption is commonly known as substitutionary atonement. It runs something like this: in the beginning, God created the earth, and it was good—but then ...

And what’s up with all the blood? Good Friday and Easter are basically the pinnacle of the Christian calendar. What it all centers on. But in recent years we’ve seen a lot of angst over what Jesus’ ...

More and more evangelicals believe Christ’s atoning death is merely a grotesque creation of the medieval imagination. Really? “I‘ve just been told that I’m too Atonement-centered.” My sister in Christ ...

Do you ever spare a thought for Philipp Melanchthon? In terms of theological controversy, he saw it all, or most of it. There are many good reasons for spending sympathetic time with him, and sympathy ...

(RNS) A dispute over a hymn has Presbyterians and Baptists tussling over the Christian doctrines of the atonement, which explain why Jesus died and whether his death satisfies God’s wrath over ...