by David Brondos | Jul 16, 2018
I have just worked through parts of Gregory Boyd’s two-volume work, The Crucifixion of the Warrior God: Interpreting the Old Testament’s Violent Portraits of God in Light of the Cross (Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 2017). I was able to download and...
by David Brondos | Jul 1, 2018
In addition to speaking of Jesus giving up his life for others, the Gospel of John refers to Jesus as the Lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world and views his death as the means by which he is glorified and lifted up to heaven. The First Epistle of John and...
by David Brondos | Jun 28, 2018
Central to the argument of the Epistle to the Hebrews is the image of Jesus as a great high priest who offered himself and his body and blood up to God so that through him believers might attain salvation, redemption, and purification from their sins. While no other...
by David Brondos | Jun 14, 2018
Unedited version of article published in Pro Ecclesia 13, 1 (Winter 2004), pp. 39-57 If asked to identify the one figure and one teaching most responsible for the current fragmented state of Western...
by David Brondos | Jun 1, 2018
The First Epistle of Peter affirms that believers have been redeemed from their futile ways with Jesus’ precious blood and states that Jesus bore their sins in his body on the cross. It also presents Jesus as the righteous one who died for the unrighteous and for...
