Search Results: cruciform
Answering an Objection to a Cross-Centered Approach to Scripture
Category: Q&A
Tags: Bible, Cruciform Theology, Inerrancy, Q&A, Scripture
Topics: Christus Victor view of Atonement
READER: I normally like what he has to say, but Greg’s cruciform hermeneutics strikes me as dangerous. Doesn’t this thinking make us (as flawed humans) the arbiters or judges of truth? If the Word of God can be defined and explained away through our definition of what we (again, as…
God’s Shadow Activity [Sermon 7/15/12]
Category: Sermons and Video Clips
Tags: Cruciform Theology, Old Testament
…of the reality which is found in Christ. Greg will be going into much more detail on this subject in his forthcoming book The Crucifixion of the Warrior God, but he has also written about this in his recent blog posts on cruciform hermeneutics. God’s Shadow Activity Download the MP3…
A ReKnew Manifesto
Category: General
Tags: ReKnew
…reveals the truth that God’s nature is other-oriented, self-sacrificial love. We thus believe that all of our thinking about God, as well as all of our reading of Scripture, must be done through the lens of the cross and with this cruciform understanding of God’s love. 4. ReThink the Kingdom…
If the violent depictions of God in the Bible are not completely accurate, isn’t all of Scripture up for debate?
Category: General
Tags: Bible, Cruciform Theology, Theology
Question: I’m very intrigued by your cruciform hermeneutics and can’t wait for your book (Crucifixion of the Warrior God) to come out. But I have to say that it strikes me as dangerous. You’re basically saying that the violent portraits of God in the OT are not completely accurate. But…
How NOT To Be Christ-Centered: A Review of God With Us – Part IV
Category: Essays
Tags: Book Reviews, Classical Theism, Cruciform Theology, Essay, God With Us
Topics: Biblical Interpretation
…should already be clear, the Cruciform Principle of Accommodation will be primarily focused on the manner in which God accommodates the limited and fallen framework of people by allowing himself to appear in ways that fall short of reflecting his true, loving character as revealed in Christ. Finally, Oliphint writes…
A Coming Storm
Category: Essays
Tags: Bible, Cruciform Theology, Debate, Essay, Evangelism, Jesus, OT Violence
Topics: Interpreting Violent Pictures and Troubling Behaviors
…resurrect and defend in The Crucifixion of the Warrior God. Yet, while I believe these early church theologians were pointing us in the right direction, I do not think the allegorical way these theologians reinterpreted this material is plausible any longer. I am rather proposing what I call “The Cruciform…
Are You Guilty of Marcionism?
Category: Q&A
Tags: Bible, Cruciform Theology, Heresy, Jesus, Non-Violence, Old Testament, Violence
Topics: Interpreting Violent Pictures and Troubling Behaviors
http://youtu.be/-CXIGbVMb5I Greg responds to the question of whether or not his cruciform hermeneutic is anything like the heresy of Marcion, who basically advocated throwing out the Old Testament. (Spoiler: it’s not.)…
The “Third Way”: Seeing God’s Beauty in the Depth of Scripture’s Violent Portraits of God
Category: Essays
Tags: Crucifixion of the Warrior God, Cruciform Theology, Essay, Non-Violence, Picture of God, Third Way
Topics: Interpreting Violent Pictures and Troubling Behaviors
…be centered on the cross and that, when this is carried through consistently, it significantly reframes every aspect of our theology while resolving a multitude of classical theological conundrums. I am thus preparing a book to follow The Crucifixion of the Warrior God that will be (tentatively) titled, The Cruciform…
Why Greg Can’t be Accused of Marcionism (Let’s Not Burn Him at the Stake Just Yet)
Category: General
Tags: Crucifixion of the Warrior God, Cruciform Theology, Hermeneutics, Marcionism, Pacifism, Richard Beck, War
…working out of his Cruciform Thesis. But while Marcion basically threw out the Old Testament, claiming that it portrayed a different God than Jesus shows us, Greg has insisted that the Old Testament is inspired, as Jesus clearly believed. So how do we resolve the tension between the portrayal of…
The Cross Above All Else
Category: General
Tags: Benefit of the Doubt, Communion, Cruciform Theology, Faith, Jesus
…his love. We trust that our fallen and self-oriented character will be transformed into God’s cruciform character. That is the kingdom, pure and simple. The central significance of the cross is reflected in the fact that the sign of our covenant relationship with Christ is communion. When we look to…
How is the Bible “God-Breathed”?
Category: General
Tags: Bible, Bible Interpretation, Cross, Cruciform Theology, Inspiration, Jesus
Topics: Biblical Interpretation
…of Scripture. Among other things, it means that our confession that Scripture is divinely inspired should not be understood as suggesting that all that is written within the canon is the result of God unilaterally acting through human authors. Reflecting God’s cruciform character, these writings also reflect God humbly permitting…
The Rule of Love
Category: General
Tags: Augustine, Cross, Cruciform Theology, Jesus, Love, Rule of Love
…embrace a hermeneutic that is centered on the love of God that was embodied in Christ, then I submit that we ought to embrace a hermeneutic that is even more specifically centered on the cross. In short, we ought to embrace a cruciform hermeneutic. Image by Bob AuBuchon via Flickr….
The Greatest Mystery of the Christian Faith
Category: General
Tags: Cross, Cruciform Theology, Incarnation, Love, Self-Sacrificial Love, Trinity
…God has always been relating to, and working through, his covenant people. This is what I call The Principle of Cruciform Accommodation. Reflecting on the revelation of the crucified God leads us to the most profound, beautiful, and important mystery of the Christian faith. The fullest and clearest revelation of…
When God Endorsed Polygamy
Category: General
Tags: Bible, Cruciform Theology, God
Topics: Interpreting Violent Pictures and Troubling Behaviors
…narrative’s depiction of God is a shadow of the cross that points to a humble, God of cruciform love who is not above taking on an appearance that mirrors the fallen barbaric state of his people rather than that reflect his true, beautiful nature. Image by Keoni Cabral via Flickr….
God Became What He is Not To Reveal What He Is
Category: General
Tags: Cruciform Theology, God, Salvation
Topics: Attributes and Character
…portrait of God as a law-oriented deity. Moreover, inasmuch as the law of the OT is bound up with its nationalism and violence, we can say that, by means of this cruciform negative pedagogy, God also freed us from the curse of living under the portrait of God as a…
III The New Testament
…M. Gorman’s Cruciformity: Paul’s Narrative Spirituality of the Cross (Eerdmans, 2001) 2 J. J. Gunther, St Paul’s Opponents and Their Background (Leiden: Brill, 1973) 2 R. A. Johnson, “The Old Testament Background for Paul’s Use of ‘Principalities and Powers’”(Ph.D. Diss. Dallas Theological Seminary, 2004) 3 J. Kallas, The Satanward View:…
Crucifixion of the Warrior God Update
Category: General
Tags: Crucifixion of the Warrior God, Cruciform Theology
…of Scripture and the centrality of the crucified and risen Christ as God’s supreme revelation. Developing a theological interpretation of Scripture involves what Boyd calls a cruciform hermeneutic. This reading leads us into the proper way of understanding the character of God, revealing God as loving, sacrificial, and subverting violence….
Renouncing Violent Appearances: CWG Excerpt
Category: General
Tags: Character of God, Crucifixion of the Warrior God
…to the cross with Christ (Col 2:14), the sinful conception of God as a violent warrior god was included. Hence, the revelation of the agape-loving and sin-bearing crucified God entails the permanent crucifixion of the violent warrior god. Crucifixion of the Warrior God, Volume 1: The Cruciform Hermeneutic, pages xli-xlii…
Classical Theism’s Unnecessary Paradoxes
Category: General
Tags: Attributes of God, Classical Theism, Cruciform Theology, Jesus, Suffering
Topics: Attributes and Character
…orient all our thinking around Christ, this “nevertheless” simply does not arise. To the contrary, with a Christocentric and cruciform orientation, the fact that God became a human and suffered on the cross reveals that God’s essential being includes temporality, changeability, and a capacity to suffer. Indeed, while the classical…
Reviewing the Reviews: Derek Flood
Category: General
Tags: Crucifixion of the Warrior God, Derek Flood, Disarming Scripture, Reviews
…foundation of my entire Cruciform Thesis, and judging from the fundamental way Derek misunderstood some of the material he reviewed, I’m not completely confident he understood it. For example, Derek apparently thinks he is arguing against my position when he notes that the earlier mentioned story of David being punished…