Search Results: cruciform
Reviewing the Reviews: Tom Belt (Part 2)
Category: General
Tags: Crucifixion of the Warrior God, Cruciform Theology, Tom Belt
Topics: Biblical Interpretation
…my understanding of Jesus’ forsakenness but nevertheless accepting the other three principles that comprise the Cruciform Thesis (and take up the remaining three quarters of volume two). All this to say: Tom’s review focused almost exclusively on a point that represents a fragment of CWG and that is not essential…
Podcast: How Involved in Church Should Kids Be?
Category: ReKnew Podcast
Tags: Kids
Greg discusses the idea of a Kids book based on a Cruciform Hermeneutic, then considers how much kids should be involved in reading and learning about the bible. http://traffic.libsyn.com/askgregboyd/Episode_0164.mp3…
The Non-Violent Jesus Clothed in Violence
Category: General
Topics: Interpreting Violent Pictures and Troubling Behaviors
…The Cruciform Hermeneutic that I propose in Crucifixion of the Warrior God is my attempt to dig deeper and to resolve this dichotomy. I take my cue from Luther when he described a Christ-centered approach to interpreting the OT as looking for the baby Jesus wrapped in swaddling clothes. In…
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 can discern by faith that often times God broke through the limitations and sin of…
Two Kingdoms
Category: General
Tags: America, Kingdom of this World, The Kingdom of God
…from the wellspring of abundant life that we receive from Christ, we live in revolt against everything in our own lives, in society, and in the spirit-realm that is inconsistent with the cruciform revelation of God. —Adapted from The Myth of a Christian Religion, pages 21-24 Photo via Visual hunt…
Cross Vision Coming Soon!
Category: Sermons and Video Clips
Tags: Cross Vision, Cruciform Theology
https://youtu.be/7C2UMH3_ttI In Greg’s new book, Cross Vision, he explains how the crucifixion of Jesus makes sense of the violent portraits of God in the Old Testament. His groundbreaking “cruciform hermeneutic” will change the way that you read the Bible! While Crucifixion of the Warrior God laid out Greg’s case in…
Jesus and the “Favored Nation”
Category: General
Tags: Israel, Jesus, Kingdom of God, Nationalism
Topics: Enemy-Loving Non-Violence
…(Deut. 27-28). What we shall now see is that the nation-centered portrait of God in the OT is also a mask that our humble, incarnational God condescended to wear. This correlates with the Principle of Cruciform Accommodation that I introduce in Crucifixion of the Warrior God. To grasp the nature…
Did the Father Suffer on the Cross?
Category: General
Tags: Cruciform Theology, Love, Trinity
Topics: Attributes and Character
…in his creation entails that the Father and Spirit, in their own unique ways, also took responsibility for all this evil, though they are no more morally culpable for any of it than is the Son. The cruciform interpretation of Scripture’s dual way of speaking about God is grounded in…
Did Yahweh Crush His Son?
Category: General
Tags: Cruciform Theology, Jesus, Violence
Topics: Attributes and Character
…plenty of other passages in Isaiah that clearly reflect a pen-ultimate, sub-Christlike understand of Yahweh’s character. Isaiah clearly did not think Yahweh was above engaging in horrific violence. We can discern the humble, stooping cruciform God in the depth of these violent portraits. Here, we can also discern how God…
Who Curses the Earth?
Category: General
Tags: Cruciform Theology, The Fall
Topics: Interpreting Violent Pictures and Troubling Behaviors
…are responsible for them. If it is granted that the cross reveals a God who is altogether non-violent, then a cruciform interpretation of the curse that now afflicts the world would lead us to conclude that God is not in any way bringing about, or responsible for, the violence and…
Sending Evil Spirits
Category: General
Tags: Cruciform Theology, Evil, Judgment
…in unethical behavior, I nevertheless think it is undeniable that these passages reflect a fallen and culturally-conditioned perspective of God’s character. But as we interpret them with a cruciform hermeneutic, I submit that we can discern in them not only a God who humbly stoops to accommodate the pen-ultimate views…
Podcast: Why is First Peter SO Harsh Towards Women?
Category: ReKnew Podcast
Tags: Gender Roles, Jesus Feminist, Women In Ministry
Verse: 1 Peter 3
Greg looks at Peter’s harsh views of women through a Cruciform lens. http://traffic.libsyn.com/askgregboyd/Episode_0237.mp3…
What About the Harsh Words of Paul? A Response to Paul Copan (#4)
Category: General
Tags: Crucifixion of the Warrior God, Love, Non-Violence, Paul Copan
Topics: Attributes and Character
…in his inspired teachings that qualifies the unconditional, self-sacrificial, non-violent, enemy-embracing nature of God’s love that was fully revealed on the cross. I thus don’t consider Copan’s use of Paul against my Cruciform Thesis to constitute a particularly strong objection to it. Photo by stucklo6an on Visualhunt.com / CC BY-NC-ND…
Does the Author of Hebrews Condone Capital Punishment? A Response to Paul Copan (#12)
Category: General
Tags: Crucifixion of the Warrior God, Cruciform Theology, Non-Violence, Paul Copan
Topics: Interpreting Violent Pictures and Troubling Behaviors
Verse: Hebrews 10: 26-29
…if I felt I had to – viz. if I didn’t feel my explanation of this passage was compelling and thus concluded that this author did condone capital punishment and did believe it was directly willed by God — I would simply apply the cruciform hermeneutic to this passage. That…
Podcast: Isn’t God the Author of Suffering in the Crucifixion?
Category: ReKnew Podcast
Tags: Crucifixion of the Warrior God, Cruciform Theology, Suffering
Greg considers the implications of his Cruciform Hermeneutic on his previous work in God at War. http://traffic.libsyn.com/askgregboyd/Episode_0274.mp3…
How Important Is the Cross?
Category: General
…fact, the unsurpassable—revelation of God. And this is why John defines the kind of love that God eternally is by pointing us to the cross. In all eternity, no event could reveal God’s true cruciform character more perfectly. —Adapted from Cross Vision, page 35-37 Artwork Attributed to Thomas de Keyser…
The Greatest in the Kingdom (1 of 2)
Category: General, Guest Contributor
Tags: Crucifixion of the Warrior God, Cruciform Theology, Kids
This post is a summary of what was discussed at the ReKnew CrossVision Conference in regard to what and how we teach our kids about the cruciform hermeneutic. Article by Natalie Frisk Recently, while involved in an all ages musical worship experience, I watched a couple of three and four-year-olds…
Podcast: A Cross Vision Reading of David & Goliath
Category: General, ReKnew Podcast
Tags: Cross Vision, Crucifixion of the Warrior God, Cruciform Theology, Non-Violence, OT Violence
Dan takes a shot at interpreting the David & Goliath story through a cruciform lens. http://traffic.libsyn.com/askgregboyd/Episode_0294.mp3…
How the Church is Tempted to “Do Good”
Category: General
Tags: Cruciform Theology, Myth of a Christian Nation
The previous post spoke of God’s call to the church to be resident aliens: a holy, distinct people who are set apart and peculiar when compared to the patterns of the world. The holiness of God’s kingdom is cruciform love, which constitutes our distinct witness to the world. Preserving this…
Part 16 (of 19): The Archetypal Christ
Category: General
Tags: Book Reviews, Books, Jordan Peterson
…resurrection is understood in the NT to be God’s declaration that the cruciform way of life, illustrated by Jesus, will be victorious in the end, all appearances to the contrary notwithstanding. Acknowledging this much, however, doesn’t come close to capturing the profound meaning of Jesus’ resurrection in the NT. For…