Was the Crucifixion Necessary? (podcast)
Category: ReKnew Podcast
Topics: Christology, Christus Victor view of Atonement
Greg talks about how necessary the cross was. Episode 919 http://traffic.libsyn.com/askgregboyd/Episode_0919.mp3
Are We Still Sinners? (podcast)
Category: ReKnew Podcast
Topics: Atonement and The Cross, Sin
Greg talks about the economy of the cross. http://traffic.libsyn.com/askgregboyd/Episode_0820.mp3
Is It Possible God’s Plan on the Cross Failed? (podcast)
Category: ReKnew Podcast
Topics: Atonement and The Cross
Greg contemplates God’s victory on the cross. http://traffic.libsyn.com/askgregboyd/Episode_0814.mp3
How Does Christus Victor Deal with Propitiation? (podcast)
Category: ReKnew Podcast
Topics: Christus Victor view of Atonement
Greg placates listeners in this appeasing episode on propitiation. http://traffic.libsyn.com/askgregboyd/Episode_0783.mp3
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
Isn’t the Resurrection the Ultimate Revelation of God? (podcast)
Category: ReKnew Podcast
Tags: Cruciform Theology
Topics: Atonement and The Cross
Greg considers the relationship between Christ’s death and resurrection. http://traffic.libsyn.com/askgregboyd/Episode_0744.mp3
Does God Love Me, or Simply Jesus-In-My-Place? (podcast)
Category: ReKnew Podcast
Topics: Atonement and The Cross, Faith & Doubt
Greg looks at how atonement theories reveal God’s love for us. http://traffic.libsyn.com/askgregboyd/Episode_0738.mp3
What Happens to Atonement Theory Without Satan? (podcast)
Category: ReKnew Podcast
Topics: Atonement and The Cross, Christus Victor view of Atonement
Greg and Nick consider the role of the principalities and powers on atonement theory. http://traffic.libsyn.com/askgregboyd/Episode_0712.mp3
How Do We Do Good Atonement Theology? (podcast)
Category: ReKnew Podcast
Topics: Atonement and The Cross
Greg and Nick Quient talk atonement. http://traffic.libsyn.com/askgregboyd/Episode_0711.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…
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…
The All-Too-Common Montage God
Category: General
Tags: Cross Vision, Cruciform Theology
Topics: Attributes and Character, Christus Victor view of Atonement
How do you picture God? It’s impossible to exaggerate the importance of a believer’s mental picture of God. The intensity of your love for God will never outrun the beauty of the God you envision…
The Centrality of the Cross in Church History
Category: General
Tags: Calvinism, Cruciform Theology, Evangelicalism, Luther
Topics: Atonement and The Cross
Some readers of Crucifixion of the Warrior God may be assuming that the emphasis I’m placing on the cross is unprecedented in church history. While I will not deny that the cross-centered approached to interpreting…
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…
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…
Transported
Category: Sermons and Video Clips
Tags: Atonement, Cross, The Work of the People
Topics: Atonement and The Cross
What did Jesus do on the cross that we couldn’t do for ourselves? Jesus stood in our place. God stepped in to bear the consequences of our sin. And in doing so, Christ defeated the powers,…