Joshua M. McNall
Auteur de The Mosaic of Atonement: An Integrated Approach to Christ's Work
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Joshua McNall (PhD, University of Manchester) is Assistant Professor of Theology at Oklahoma Wesleyan University. His other books include A Free Corrector: Colin Gunton and the Legacy of Augustine (Fortress, 2015), and the popular-level, Long Story Short: The Bible in Six Simple Movements (Seedbed, afficher plus 2018). He lives in Bartlesville, Oklahoma, with his wife Brianna, and their four children. He blogs regularly at www.joshuamcnall.com. afficher moins
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- Œuvres
- 5
- Membres
- 97
- Popularité
- #194,532
- Évaluation
- 4.8
- Critiques
- 2
- ISBN
- 11
McNall presents an enthralling portrait of the atonement of Christ, bringing together models that are often viewed at odds, into a coherent "mosaic." Four atonement models are explored: recapitulation, penal (vicarious) substitution, Christus Victor, and moral influence. Each model may be viewed, says McNall, not as more important than another, but as interrelated parts of a whole, each building upon and leading into the other. The models may be understood as analogous to a human body founded on feet, given life by the heart, guided by the head, and reaching out in the arms and hands -- these four body components each associated with the four models respectively.
McNall plumbs the depths of theological history as well as addressing contemporary questions for and challenges to each model, as well as proposing a vista from which to avoid placing atonement models in competition but also by which to view them all as crucial to the work of Father, Son, and Spirit in bringing salvation through Christ. In this exploration, ancient understandings are shown to be relevant to contemporary needs, and modern critiques (especially of penal substitution) are revealed to be either false or overstated. One is left with high regard for each atonement model and its importance for proclaiming the gospel. And of particular interest for Pentecostals (my tradition) may be McNall's emphasis on the Spirit as crucial to the working out of atonement in the Christian community and individual believer.
Overall a careful and compelling presentation for appreciating the atonement as multi-dimensional and yet unified in what is accomplished by the triune God.
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