Recovering the Scandal of the Cross: Atonement in New Testament and Contemporary Contexts
By Mark D. Baker and Joel B. Green
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For the first-century Roman world the cross was first and foremost an instrument of shameful and violent execution. But early Christians, who had seen their world upended by the atoning power of the cross of Christ, came to view it in an entirely different light. Deeply scandalous, it was paradoxically glorious. For the cross of Christ marked the epochal saving event in God's dealings with Israel and the world. And its meaning could not be fathomed or encircled by a single image or formulation. Since its publication in 2000, Recovering the Scandal of the Cross has initiated among evangelicals a new conversation about the nature of the atonement and how it should be expressed in the varied and global contexts of today. In this second edition Green and Baker have clarified and enlarged their argument in a way that will continue to provoke thought and conversation on this critical topic.
Mark D. Baker
Mark D. Baker (PhD, Duke University) is professor of mission and theology at Fresno Pacific Biblical Seminary in Fresno, California. He served as a missionary in Honduras for ten years and has written a number of books, including Ministering in Honor-Shame Cultures (with Jayson Georges) and Recovering the Scandal of the Cross (with Joel B. Green).
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- Rating: 1 out of 5 stars1/5Thoughtful, provocative, heretical. Green and Baker write, "The Scriptures as a whole provide no ground for a portrait of an angry God needing to be appeased in atoning sacrifice" [I wonder have they seriously and prayerfully read the Old Testament? Have they truly studied the book of Hebrews?]... They add that the penal substitutionary view of the atonement is cultural rather than Biblical [Of course, the words 'penal' and 'substitution' are not in the Old or New Testament Scriptures but neither is the word 'Trinity'... Is that also a cultural concept?] Later they write, "Sin...can never be understood as something private or individualistic..." [Who then is accountable for my sin? Or is my sin not my sin? And when I stand at the judgment seat who will answer for me?] The authors also argue that Jesus' death was not planned and ordained of God. They suggest rather that Jesus made a good guess when he spoke of his impending death...after all, what else could he expect in the cultural climate in which he was living? This book is praised as a "fresh look at the cross of Jesus". I am not sure that its 'freshness' is a praiseworthy quality. I was deeply disappointed by this book. Green and Baker have strayed far from the Evangelical tradition that I hold dear. "As I besought thee...that thou mightest charge some that they teach no other doctrine...from which some having swerved have turned aside unto vain jangling desiring to be teachers of the law understanding neither what they say nor whereof they affirm." (1 Timothy 1)
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