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Reading Jesus Without Shortcuts · Volume 3 of 5 · Catalog 43192

The Cross

What Actually Happened There

Part of the Reading Jesus Without Shortcuts series within the Reading Jesus Without Shortcuts pathway.

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In The Cross, Will Bourne asks what actually happened when Jesus was crucified. Reading the passion narratives, Isaiah 53, Psalm 22, 2 Corinthians 5, and the New Testament’s many atonement images, he holds human responsibility and divine saving purpose together. The result refuses both violent caricatures of God and reductions of the cross to inspiration, offering a pastoral account of sacrifice, substitution, victory, forgiveness, reconciliation, power, and resurrection.

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