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SACRAMENTAL COMMUNITY ONE MORE TIME
A Note on Retrieving Church Just a note. In my last post, on sacramental community (“Retrieving Church”), I missed what might be the most important point. In the somewhat wonky center section of the essay (the part I suggested you can skip), I described a shift in medieval thinking about the body of Christ. In…
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HARSH JUSTICE: THE GOSPELS, THE MACCABEAN MARTYRS, AND PENAL SUBSTUTIONARY ATONEMENT
The PSA Story At the heart of evangelical Christianity is a story. The story goes like this. Humans collectively (in Adam) and individually (on our own dime) have fallen–sinned. The sins of the human race offend God or, more precisely, offend God’s justice. And if God is to be God, then God must punish these sins. Punishment…