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God’s Heart to Prevent Judgment
Category: General
Tags: Cruciform Theology, Judgment, Prayer
Topics: Interpreting Violent Pictures and Troubling Behaviors
Verse: Ezekiel 21, Ezekiel 22
In Ezekiel we read a passage that depicts Yahweh as warning his people about their impending punishment by saying, “I will pour out my wrath on you and breathe out my fiery anger against you”…
Did Yahweh Crush His Son?
Category: General
Tags: Cruciform Theology, Jesus, Violence
Topics: Attributes and Character
Though Isaiah was probably referring to the nation of Israel as Yahweh’s “suffering servant” when these words were penned, the NT authors as well as other early church fathers interpreted this servant to be a…
Did the Father Suffer on the Cross?
Category: General
Tags: Cruciform Theology, Love, Trinity
Topics: Attributes and Character
When I argue that the cross is a Trinitarian event (See post), some may suspect that I am espousing Patripassionism, which was a second and third century teaching that held that God the Father suffered…
The Cross as a Trinitarian Event
Category: General
Tags: Cross, Cruciform Theology, Jürgen Moltmann, Trinity
Topics: Attributes and Character, Trinity
On Calvary, the all-holy God fully identified with sinners, suffering the consequences of our sin as though he himself were guilty. While God is never culpable for the evil he allows, he nevertheless assumes responsibility…
A Kingdom Not of This World
Category: General
Tags: Israel, Kingdom of God, Nationalism
In the previous post, I introduced how Jesus directly taught against the favored nation status of Israel, an theme that runs throughout his ministry. For example, Yahweh’s Sinai covenant with Israel was rooted in a…
Jesus and the “Favored Nation”
Category: General
Tags: Israel, Jesus, Kingdom of God, Nationalism
Topics: Enemy-Loving Non-Violence
Nationalism lies at the heart of the Old Testament narrative. This concept is intimately wrapped up with the law-oriented covenant God made with the Israelites at Mount Sinai, for at the heart of this covenant…
Reinterpreting the Law, Violence and Nationalism of the OT
Category: General
Tags: Law, Nationalism, Old Testament, OT Violence
Topics: Biblical Interpretation
The law of the OT was intended to serve a negative object lesson. This finds its clearest expression in Paul. To begin, Paul interpreted Jesus’ death on the cross largely in sacrificial and substitutionary terms….
The ReKnew Cross Vision Conference is Coming!
Category: General
Tags: Cross Vision, Crucifixion of the Warrior God, Upcoming Conference
Since its release in mid-April, Crucifixion of the Warrior God has helped a multitude of people fully embrace for the first time the beautiful God revealed in Jesus’ cross-centered life and ministry. It has helped…
When Repentance is No Longer Possible
Category: General
Tags: Forgiveness, Salvation
Topics: Death and Salvation
Verse: Hebrews 6:4-8
A concerned follower of ReKnew recently asked me to explain a puzzling passage, and since I am asked this question with some regularity, I thought I’d share with all of you. Here is the passage…
Four Principles of the Cruciform Thesis
Category: General
Tags: Crucifixion of the Warrior God, Cruciform Theology
Topics: Interpreting Violent Pictures and Troubling Behaviors
In the second volume of Crucifixion of the Warrior God, I introduce how four dimensions of the revelation of God on the cross (as introduced in this post) lead to four principles that show us…
Two Questions to Unlock Violent Divine Portraits
Category: General
Tags: Crucifixion of the Warrior God, Cruciform Theology, OT Violence
Topics: Interpreting Violent Pictures and Troubling Behaviors
There are two basic questions that help us to interpret what is going on in the violent portraits of God in the Old Testament, as I propose in Crucifixion of the Warrior God. The First…
CWG Giveaway!
Category: General
Tags: Cross Vision, Crucifixion of the Warrior God, Fortress Press, Homebrewed Christianity
Our friends at Homebrewed Christianity teamed up with our friends at Fortress Press to give away a signed copy of Greg Boyd’s two volume work The Crucifixion of the Warrior God. PLUS, the winner will also get 10…
God’s Non-Violent Ideal in the OT
Category: General
Tags: Cruciform Theology, Nationalism, Non-Violence
Topics: Enemy-Loving Non-Violence
While God condescended to working within the violent-prone, fallen framework of his people in the Old Testament—as I argue in Crucifixion of the Warrior God—the OT is also full of references to how God worked…
Two Kingdoms
Category: General
Tags: America, Kingdom of this World, The Kingdom of God
The kingdom of God is holy—meaning “separate, set apart, consecrated.” It looks like Jesus, nothing else. We can’t simply equate the kingdom with everything we think is good, noble, and true. Nor can we align…
Was Jesus “Crazy”?
Category: General, Guest Contributor
Tags: Apologetics, Fully Human
Topics: Apologetics, Jesus: Lord or Legend
Article by Dan Kent “Do you believe I’m the messiah,” the man asked, his voice part tenor, part nasal-congestion. He rubbed his robe collar between his thumb and index finger. This detail sticks in my…
Reading the Bible “by Faith”
Category: General
Tags: Bible, Cruciform Theology, Faith
The cruciform approach to reading the Bible—and specifically the culturally-conditioned and sin-stained portraits of God—requires faith on the part of the reader, which I argue in Crucifixion of the Warrior God. On one level we…
How the Bible is Trustworthy
Category: General
Tags: Bible, Cruciform Theology, Inspiration
All of God’s communication in the Scriptures are covenantal in nature. Expressing his covenantal love and faithfulness, God stoops to “breath” Scripture as a means of bearing witness to his covenant relationship with Israel, and…
Sin-Bearing God
Category: General
Tags: Cross, Cruciform Theology, Divine Accommodation
Topics: Attributes and Character
On the cross, God became our sin, as Paul wrote: “God made him who had no sin to be sin for us” (2 Cor 5:21). However, God didn’t begin to be a sin-bearing God when…
AMBS Webinar on Is God to Blame?
Category: General
Tags: Greg Boyd, Is God to Blame?
Today is the last day to sign up for a webinar Greg is doing on his book Is God to Blame? Here’s the description from AMBS: Drawing on his acclaimed book, Is God to Blame? : Moving…