by David Brondos | Mar 28, 2021
A careful examination of Second Temple Jewish beliefs regarding sacrifice and vicarious suffering and death makes it clear that what was thought to atone for sins was not suffering or death but a renewed commitment to living in accordance with God’s loving will. Both...
by David Brondos | Feb 28, 2021
Pauline scholars commonly look to the ideas of substitution and participation to interpret Paul’s affirmations that believers have been justified, redeemed, and reconciled to God through Jesus’ death or blood. Here it is argued that both of those ideas as...
by David Brondos | Jan 28, 2021
Numerous passages from Jewish and Greco-Roman writings of antiquity speak of certain persons dying for others or attaining some benefit for them by means of their suffering and death. While it has been common to argue that many of these passages reflect the idea that...
by David Brondos | Dec 25, 2020
Originally Published: Nov. 20, 2017 What does it mean to be Lutheran? Can one rightly call oneself Lutheran if one does not fully identify with the Northern European culture in which Lutheranism originally arose, or is Lutheranism by nature inseparable from that...
by David Brondos | Nov 16, 2019
Few books have had a more profound impact on my understanding of the significance that Jesus’ first followers ascribed to his death and the original context in which he was proclaimed as crucified and...
