By Gregory A. Boyd
Renowned pastor-theologian Gregory A. Boyd proposes a innovative technique to learn the Bible during this epic yet available research. His "cruciform hermeneutic" stands as a problem to the sphere of religious study and to all considerate Christians.
A dramatic stress confronts each Christian believer and interpreter of Scripture: at the one hand, we come across previous testomony tales of God commanding horrendous violence. nonetheless, we learn the unequivocally nonviolent teachings of Jesus within the New testomony. Reconciling those has challenged Christians and theologians for 2 millennia.
Throughout Christian background, numerous solutions were proposed, starting from the long-rejected rationalization that those contrasting depictions are of 2 fullyyt varied "gods" to fresh social, cultural, and literary theories that try and dispel the conflict.
The Crucifixion of the Warrior God takes up this dramatic rigidity and the diversity of proposed solutions in an bold confident research. Over volumes, Gregory A. Boyd argues that we needs to take heavily the complete variety of Scripture as encouraged, together with its violent depictions of God. whilst, he affirms absolutely the centrality of the crucified and risen Christ because the ideally suited revelation of God.
Developing a theological interpretation of Scripture that he labels a "cruciform hermeneutic," Boyd demonstrates how the Bible's violent photos of God are reframed and their violence subverted whilst interpreted in the course of the lens of the move and resurrection. certainly, whilst learn during this method, Boyd argues that those violent depictions undergo witness to a similar self-sacrificial nature of God that used to be eventually printed at the cross.
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Gerhard Kittel and Gerhard Friedrich, trans. Geoffrey W. Bromiley, 10 vols. (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1964–1976) TDOT Theological Dictionary of the Old Testament, ed. G. Johannes Botterweck and Helmer Ringgren, trans. John T. , 8 vols. (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1974–2006) Th Theology Them Themelios ThR Theological Review ThTo Theology Today TIS Theological Interpretation of Scripture TJ Trinity Journal TNTC Tyndale New Testament Commentaries TOTC Tyndale Old Testament Commentaries TP Transactions and Proceedings of the American Philological Association TS Theological Studies TTE The Theological Educator TWOT Theological Wordbook of the Old Testament, ed.
In chapters 2 and 3 I make the case for my previously mentioned claim that the revelation of God in Christ is not merely one revelation among others, nor even the greatest revelation among all others. Rather, I will argue that the NT presents Christ as the revelation that culminates all others, the revelation through which all previous revelations are to be interpreted, and the revelation to which all previous revelations point. I will follow this in chapters 4 and 5 by building on the work of Thomas Torrance and others to demonstrate that the cross should be understood to be the thematic center of Jesus’s atoning life rather than merely as an atoning event at the end of his life.
On Jesus as the revelation that surpasses all others, see vol. 1, chs. 2–3. ↵ Jerome F. D. Creach, Violence in Scripture (Louisville, KY: Westminster John Knox, 2013), 1. ↵ See, for example, Paul Copan, Is God a Moral Monster? Making Sense of the Old Testament God (Grand Rapids: Baker Academic, 2011); David T. Lamb, God Behaving Badly: Is the God of the Old Testament Angry, Sexist and Racist? (Downers Grove, IL: InterVarsity, 2011). For other works that argue along these lines, see vol. 1, ch.