Atonement in New Testament and Contemporary Contexts
by
Mark D. Baker, Joel B. Green
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2011
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...