Search Results: Christus Victor
How Does the Christus Victor Model of Atonement Deal with Sin? (podcast)
Category: ReKnew Podcast
Topics: Christus Victor view of Atonement
Greg looks at the many dimensions of the cross, and how that relates to the defeat of Satan. http://traffic.libsyn.com/askgregboyd/Episode_0775.mp3…
How Would You Recommend Communicating Christus Victor to Children? (podcast)
Category: ReKnew Podcast
Greg talks about spiritual warfare and children. Episode 1025 __ __ __ https://traffic.libsyn.com/askgregboyd/Episode_1025.mp3…
Podcast: Shouldn’t Pentecostals Be More Inclined to Accept a Christus Victor View of the Atonement?
Category: ReKnew Podcast
Greg looks at the evolution of Pentecostal beliefs. http://traffic.libsyn.com/askgregboyd/Episode_0429.mp3…
Atonement, Christus Victor, & Aslan Pt 2: Who Demands a Kill?
Category: General
Tags: Atonement, C.S. Lewis, Christus Victor, Chronicles of Narnia, Penal Substitution View of Atonement
Topics: Atonement and The Cross
For part 1 of 2, click here. It’s important to notice that it was the wicked Queen, not Aslan, who demands that Edmund be killed in accordance with the Deep Magic of justice. Christian’s have often assumed it is God, not Satan, who demands “a kill” in response to sin….
Where’s the new Christus Victor website?
Category: General
Some time ago I mentioned that we were going to launch our new, improved, super easy and super informative website “very soon.” “Soon” has come and gone, so where’s the new site? May I remind you that while sequence is absolute, “time” (the measurement of sequence) is relative? The New…
God is Like a Trojan Horse
Category: General
Tags: Atonement, Christus Victor, Jesus, Satan
Topics: Christus Victor view of Atonement
Yesterday, I introduced a basic understanding of the Christus Victor view of Christ’s work on the cross. [Click here to read it.] Today, I want to expand on this briefly. Because God is a God of love who gives genuine “say-so” to both angels and humans, God rarely accomplishes his…
from one of the admins
Category: General
ok…. marcia here….i work with greg at christus victor ministries…administrative and photograhy. you won’t hear from me much on this blog but sometimes i need to defend myself with those that follow this blog. i love working with greg…but let me tell you it’s NOT easy! greg thinks rosie is…
Bio
Category: General
Tags: Greg Boyd
…Campus Leadership Award. He is the founder and senior pastor of Woodland Hills Church, an evangelical mega-church in St. Paul, MN. In 2000, Greg founded Christus Victor Ministries (CVM) a nonprofit organization that promotes Greg’s writing and speaking ministry outside of Woodland Hills Church while raising funds to further research…
The Cosmic Dance Project
…decided to try writing a “Dick and Jane” book on the theological implications of recent scientific theories, a topic Greg is very passionate about, but which is also arguably the hardest concept to communicate at a popular level. Christus Victor Ministries is working with an artist, page designer and photographer…
What do you think of the “Penal Substitution” view of the atonement?
Category: Q&A
Tags: Atonement, Jesus, Q&A
Topics: Atonement and The Cross, Christology
…Four Views (Downers Grove, IL: Intervarsity, 2006). Representatives from four major schools of thought debate the atonement. I espouse the “Christus Victor” model in this work. Jersak, B. and Hardin, M. Stricken By God? (Eerdmans, 2007). An outstanding collection of essays advancing a non-violent (non-penal substitutionary) view of the atonement….
Books I’m Currently Working On
…date, 2010). Some of the perspectives of Woodland Hills Church where I am senior pastor are a bit atypical by standard American “evangelical” standards. Specifically, our intensely Christ-centered understanding of God; the centrality of Spiritual warfare; our perspective on the problem of evil; our Christus Victor view of the atonement;…
Pictorial Blog
Category: General
Hi! Marcia Erickson here. I’m a photographer. I’ve been working on a pictorial/artsy/theology book project with Greg and Christus Victor Ministries the last couple years. I’ll be the pictorial blogger here on Greg’s site. I’m excited…Greg needs some balance with ALL those words!!!! Being the CVM paparazzi I went to…
Greg’s View Cited on Andrew Sullivan Blog – 11/2010
Category: Press
Click here to read Andrew Sullivan’s blog about his appreciation for the Christus Victor view of Atonement….
Greetings from Quincy
Category: General
…that I and some friends are trying to cover in our quirky book called The Cosmic Dance (see excerpts on my homepage–Christus Victor Ministries). We’re two years into the Cosmic Dance project and only have one more chapter to go, so I’m REALLY hoping this Conference confirms my thesis in…
Aslan Roars: The Atonement as Spiritual Warfare
Category: General
Tags: Atonement, C.S. Lewis, Christus Victor, Chronicles of Narnia, Jesus, Warfare Worldview
http://youtu.be/iAlPPz1_4Bw Greg begins to unpack the Christus Victor view of the atonement by comparing it to the Chronicles of Narnia….
NDY To Blow Minds This Friday!
Category: General
…am committed to getting back into blogging. (In fact, I’m getting ready to announce a bunch of very cool changes coming to Christus Victor Ministries.) But right now, I’d just like to announce that: My band, “Not Dead Yet” (NDY) will be playing at the Dugout in Mahtomedi THIS FRIDAY…
Random Updates
Category: General
…allows Christus Victor Ministries to fund invaluable research and other work going toward CVM projects – right now, primarily The Myth of the Blueprint and The Cosmic Dance. It also allows CVM to continue to help selected impoverished families get on their feet financially. Like most non-profits, CVM is feeling…
Thank you!
Category: General
Tags: ReKnew
…this lady deserves to be sainted! I love you Beso! The idea to completely revamp my previous personal ministry (“Christus Victor Ministries”) originated several years ago with my good friend Brett Strand, who now serves as the lead of the ReKnew board. He teamed up with this delightful dude named…
The Dark Knight — A Philosophical Review
Category: General
Hello Bloggers. Welcome to the new Christus Victor Ministries website! I think you’ll find it easy to use and very informative. I am so blessed to have wonderful friends who put in a lot of time and effort to make this site what it is. I am forever indebted to…
Penal Substitution View of Atonement: Did God the Father Just Need to Vent?
Category: Essays
Tags: Atonement, Essay, Forgiveness, God, God's Wrath, Jesus, Penal Substitution View of Atonement, Picture of God, Sin
Topics: Atonement and The Cross
…and you might even be nodding your head in agreement with that description. However, this view creates some pretty serious problems when it’s examined more closely. Today, Greg will explore some of those problems, and then he’ll present the Christus Victor view in a video blog on Thursday. Stay tuned!…