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God the peacemaker : how atonement brings Shalom /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Cole, Graham A. (Graham Arthur), 1949-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Nottingham, England : Downers Grove, Ill. : Apollos ; InterVarsity Press, 2009.
Series:New studies in biblical theology (InterVarsity Press) ; 25.
Subjects:
Reconciliation > Religious aspects > Christianity.
Atonement.
Peace > Religious aspects > Christianity.
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • The big picture
  • The importance of the cross
  • A useful distinction
  • Some crucial questions
  • Assumptions
  • Approach
  • The plan of the book
  • How to read this book
  • A caution
  • The righteous God of holy love
  • The divine perfections : a righteous holy love
  • The theological conversion of P.T. Forsyth
  • The cross as revelatory of the character of God
  • Is divine love in conflict with divine wrath?
  • The glory and garbage of the universe
  • The glory of creation : imago dei
  • The primeval rupture
  • The primeval sin
  • The dominical diagnosis
  • The Pauline elaboration
  • The C.E.M. Joad story
  • The great need : peace with God, with one another and for the cosmos
  • The problem of sin
  • The problem of wrath
  • The problem of judgment
  • The problem of the human other
  • The problem of the God of this world
  • The problem of the groaning creation
  • Foundations and foreshadowings
  • Foundations in the love of the triune God
  • The foundational promise : the protoevangelium
  • The Abrahamic framework
  • Foreshadowings : the back story of God and Israel
  • The faithful Son
  • Irenaeus : a pioneering contribution
  • The faithful/faith-filled Son
  • The scorn at the cross
  • The witness of Hebrews
  • The witness of Revelation
  • The Pauline witness : Christ's faithfulness or faith in Christ?
  • The faith/faithfulness of Christ or the obedience of Christ?
  • Jesus' faithful life and atonement
  • The death and vindication of the faithful Son
  • Sacrifice
  • Divine victory through sacrifice
  • The idea of satisfaction
  • Satisfaction of divine holiness through sacrifice
  • Satisfaction of divine righteousness through sacrifice
  • Satisfaction of divine love through sacrifice
  • What kind of sacrifice?
  • Covenant-making through sacrifice
  • The vindication of the faithful Son
  • The 'peace dividend'
  • Peace with God for the individual
  • Peace between Jew and Gentile : the one new man
  • Peace for the cosmos : reconciliation and pacification
  • Life between the cross and the coming
  • Eschatological location
  • Living by faith, not by sight
  • Faith appreciates the price
  • Faith lives for him
  • Faith walks worthy of the Gospel
  • Faith suffers for the name
  • Faith resists the devil
  • Faith offers a living sacrifice
  • An eschatological community : mercy-showing and Shalom-making
  • Telling and defending the story of the project
  • The role of the spirit
  • Excursus : the three commissions lifestyle
  • The grand purpose : glory
  • Scripture's narrative unity
  • Little 'Christs'
  • Glory the goal
  • Appendix: Questioning the corss : debates, considerations and suggestions
  • Debate about the centrality of penal substitution
  • Debate about the morality of penal substitution
  • Are moral influence and exemplarist theories atonement theories?
  • Healing in the atonement?
  • The Holy Saturday debate
  • Non-violent atonement theories.