Why having more clubs in our theological golf bags helps us to better finish the course. Scot McKnight wants you to have your golf bag fully equipped—theologically speaking. That’s the controlling ...

Discussion of the Atonement involves some of the most complex problems of Christian theology—problems that challenge a theologian’s deepest insights, dialectical skills, and painstaking expression.

The very idea of preaching a single doctrine seems misguided, even though it’s far superior to preaching on neat themes that intrigue the consumers out there. So I didn’t expect to like reading ...

James Loughran, S.A., in front of the altar where Paul Wattson, S.A., the co-founder of the Society of the Atonement, celebrated his first Mass as a Catholic priest. (Doug Girardot for America) It is ...

Perhaps our most famous Christian account of redemption is commonly known as substitutionary atonement. It runs something like this: in the beginning, God created the earth, and it was good—but then ...

Later in the program, how to weather a hurricane. It takes a village. But first atonement. Rabbi Lawrence Hoffman is a professor of Jewish liturgy at Hebrew Union College and editor of the book "We ...

Drawing from his 2013 book Paul and the Faithfulness of God, Wright, 76, reframed 2 Corinthians 5:21 not as a cornerstone of penal substitutionary atonement, but as a profound defense of Paul’s ...