Jesus and His Death: Historiography, the Historical Jesus, and Atonement Theory

Jesus and His Death: Historiography, the Historical Jesus, and Atonement Theory
ISBN-10
1932792295
ISBN-13
9781932792294
Category
Atonement
Pages
451
Language
English
Published
2005
Publisher
Baylor University Press
Author
Scot McKnight

Description

Recent scholarship on the historical Jesus has rightly focused upon how Jesus understood his own mission. But no scholarly effort to understand the mission of Jesus can rest content without exploring the historical possibility that Jesus envisioned his own death. In this careful and far-reaching study, Scot McKnight contends that Jesus did in fact anticipate his own death, that Jesus understood his death as an atoning sacrifice, and that his death as an atoning sacrifice stood at the heart of Jesus' own mission to protect his own followers from the judgment of God.

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