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Postmodernity and the Atonement 2
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xscot mcknight
In yesterday’s post I asked the question how we can “prove” that Jesus died for our sins. Many of your responses were challenging and were, so I think, getting to the issue itself. I’d like to wend my way through to what I will call an “answer.” First, I begin with Lyotard’s observation that postmodernity…
Postmodernity and the Atonement
By
xscot mcknight
Along with many of my fellow bloggers, I grew up being told that Jesus died for my sins — in fact, that to die for my sins is the sole reason Jesus came to earth. Jesus’ death for us is the atonement, and there are a host of theories: Irenaeus’s recapitulation theory, the classical ransom…
Pastoral Affluenza finds a cure: slippery slopes
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xscot mcknight
Check this blog by Brad Bergfalk.
Pro Church
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xscot mcknight
In case you haven’t figured this out, I’m working my way toward an article on the Emerging movement for a magazine and so I’m testing some ideas as I move forward each day with some reading (in the time I can manage). So, thanks for the comments and observations. I’ll use “EM” for Emergent movement.…
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