Atonement
What is the Atonement? (podcast)
Category: ReKnew Podcast
Tags: Atonement
Greg talks atonement. Episode 668 http://traffic.libsyn.com/askgregboyd/Episode_0668.mp3
What Are Your Thoughts on Girard’s Scapegoat Model of the Atonement? (podcast)
Category: ReKnew Podcast
Tags: Atonement, Rene Girard
Greg praises and critiques Rene Girard’s Scapegoat theory. Episode 655 http://traffic.libsyn.com/askgregboyd/Episode_0655.mp3
Why Should I Say Jesus Died in My Place? (podcast)
Category: ReKnew Podcast
Tags: Atonement, Crucifixion
Topics: Atonement and The Cross, Death and Salvation
Greg considers how Jesus’s death on the cross saved each of us. Episode 581 http://traffic.libsyn.com/askgregboyd/Episode_0581.mp3 4
Why Did God Require Animal Sacrifice in the Old Testament?
Category: Q&A
Tags: Animal Sacrifice, Atonement, Christus Victor, Forgiveness, God, God's Wrath, Satan
Topics: Christus Victor view of Atonement, Interpreting Violent Pictures and Troubling Behaviors
Question: I have a question about the atonement. Why did YHWH in the OT demand that people sacrifice animals? And if these sacrifices anticipated the ultimate sacrifice of the Messiah, as the author of Hebrews…
Why Did Jesus Die on the Cross?
Category: General
Tags: Atonement, Christus Victor, Crucifixion, Jesus, Penal Substitution View of Atonement, Satan, Warfare Worldview
Topics: Christus Victor view of Atonement
If asked why Jesus had to die on the cross, most Christians today would immediately answer, “To pay for my sins.” Jesus certainly paid the price for our sins, but it might surprise some reader…
How is the Atonement Like an Economic Transaction? (podcast)
Category: ReKnew Podcast
Tags: Atonement, Penal Substitution View of Atonement
Greg considers a variety of metaphors for the atonement in another theologically musical episode. Episode 542 http://traffic.libsyn.com/askgregboyd/Episode_0542.mp3
Did the Crucifixion Allow God to Atone for His OWN Sins? (podcast)
Category: ReKnew Podcast
Tags: Atonement, OT Violence, Sin, Violence
Greg considers God’s nature and if he could sin. Dan confesses an old gambling habit. Episode 477 http://traffic.libsyn.com/askgregboyd/Episode_0477.mp3
What Changed on the Cross? (podcast)
Category: ReKnew Podcast
Tags: Atonement, Christ, Christianity, Crucifixion
Greg talks the sin economy and if sin actually threatens God. Episode 473 The Interview: http://traffic.libsyn.com/askgregboyd/Episode_CH_0473.mp3
Atonement: What is the Christus Victor View?
Category: Q&A
Tags: Atonement, Christus Victor, Cruciform Theology, God's Wrath, Jesus, Penal Substitution View of Atonement, Satan
Topics: Christus Victor view of Atonement
Most western Christians today understand the atonement as a sort of legal-transaction that took place between the Father and the Son that got humanity “off the hook.” The legal-transaction scenario goes something like this: God’s…
The “Christus Victor” View of the Atonement
Category: Essays
Tags: Atonement, Church, Essay, Jesus, Spiritual Warfare
Topics: Christus Victor view of Atonement, Spiritual Warfare, Cosmic Conflict
God accomplished many things by having his Son become incarnate and die on Calvary. Through Christ God revealed the definitive truth about himself (Rom 5:8, cf. Jn 14:7-10); reconciled all things, including humans, to himself…
Podcast: HOW Does the Death of Jesus Allow Us to Be Forgiven?
Category: ReKnew Podcast
Tags: Atonement, Crucifixion, Crucifixion of the Warrior God, Cruciform Theology
Greg discusses love bombs and explosions of light. http://traffic.libsyn.com/askgregboyd/Episode_0419.mp3
Podcast: What Does it Mean that God No Longer Counts Our Sins Against Us?
Category: ReKnew Podcast
Tags: Atonement, Grace, Sin, Sinners
Weights and Measures and Merciful Pleasures. Greg discusses divine math. http://traffic.libsyn.com/askgregboyd/Episode_0392.mp3 Painting: Tea Party By: Andrei Ryabushkin Date: 1903
Podcast: What Do You Mean When You Say Jesus Entered Into Solidarity with Our Sin?
Category: ReKnew Podcast
Tags: Atonement, Sin
Greg talks about God’s passion for, unity with, and pursuit of his beloved bride. http://traffic.libsyn.com/askgregboyd/Episode_0330.mp3
Christus Victor Atonement and Girard’s Scapegoat Theory
Category: General
Tags: Atonement, Character of God, Crucifixion of the Warrior God, Cruciform Theology, Love, Rene Girard, Warfare Worldview
Topics: Christus Victor view of Atonement, Interpreting Violent Pictures and Troubling Behaviors
Many of the major criticisms of Crucifixion of the Warrior God that have been raised since it was published four weeks ago have come from folks who advocate Rene Girard’s understanding of the atonement. A…
Greg and N.T. Wright at the Missio Alliance Gathering!
Category: General
Tags: Atonement, Cross, Greg Boyd, Missio Alliance, N.T. Wright, The Holy Spirit
The Missio Alliance North American Gathering will be held April 27-29 in Alexandria, Virginia. The theme this year is Awakenings: The Mission of the Spirit as the Life of the Church. Featured speakers this year…
Podcast: Defending the Manifesto (7 of 10)
Category: ReKnew Podcast
Tags: Atonement, Christus Victor, Crucifixion, Penal Substitution View of Atonement, Satan
Greg responds to challenges by William Lane Craig from Craig’s podcast “Reasonable Faith.“ Greg discusses atonement and the shortcomings of penal substitution theology. http://traffic.libsyn.com/askgregboyd/Episode_0062.mp3
The Incarnation: More Than a Rescue Mission
Category: General
Tags: Atonement, Blueprint Worldview, Incarnation, Jesus, Open Theism, Redemption, Salvation
Topics: Atonement and The Cross
A mistake people often make concerning the Incarnation is that they fail to distinguish the eternal plan of God to unite himself with humanity in Christ, on the one hand, from the atoning significance this…
A Brief Theology of Salvation
Category: General
Tags: Atonement, Cross, Evil, Redemption, Salvation
Topics: Christus Victor view of Atonement
In the NT, one of the most frequent and fundamental images used to depict our salvation is “redemption.” The root of this term lytron means a “ransom” or “price of release,” and the term itself…
The Most Quoted Old Testament Verse
Category: General
Tags: Atonement, Cross, Power, Salvation, Spiritual Warfare, Warfare Worldview
No other passage from the Old Testament is quoted more by New Testament authors than Psalm 110:1. Its frequent citation should cause us to pay attention to what is being said. It reads: The Lord…
The Cross and Cosmic Warfare
Category: General
Tags: Atonement, Christus Victor, Salvation, Spiritual Warfare, Warfare Worldview
Topics: Spiritual Warfare, Cosmic Conflict
Since the time of Anselm in the 11th century, Western theology has focused almost all of its attention on the anthropological dimension of the atonement. In the most popular understanding, the chief thing that God…