__Hans Boersma__ (PhD, University of Utrecht) holds the J. I. Packer Chair of Theology at Regent College in Vancouver, British Columbia. He is the author or editor of several books, including A Hot Pepper Corn: Richard Baxter's Doctrine of Justification in Its Seventeenth-Century Context of Controversy.

The cross is central to understanding Christian theology. But is it possible that our postmodern setting requires a new model of understanding the cross?   
  
Hans Boersma's Violence, Hospitality, and the Cross proposes an understanding of the atonement that is sensitive both to the Christian tradition and to the postmodern critiques of that tradition. His fresh approach draws on the rich resources of the Christian tradition in its portrayal of God's hospitality in Jesus Christ.

Offers a new model for understanding the atonement, sensitive to both the Christian tradition and its postmodern critics.

Introduction  
  
Part 1: The Divine Face of Hospitality  
1\. The Possibility of Hospitality  
2\. Limited Hospitality: Election and Violence in Eternity  
3\. Preferential Hospitality: Election and Violence in History  
   
Part 2: The Cruciform Face of Hospitality   
4\. Atonement, Metaphors, and Models  
5\. Modeling Hospitality: Atonement as Moral Influence  
6\. Atonement and Mimetic Violence  
7\. Hospitality, Punishment, and the Atonement  
8\. Atonement, Violence, and Victory  
  
Part 3: The Public Face of Hospitality  
9\. The Church as the Community   
of Hospitality  
10\. Public Justice and the Hospitality   
of Liberation  
  
Epilogue  
Indexes

Boersma, Hans

Cover

Title Page

Copyright

Dedication

Preface

Introduction

Part 1 The Divine Face of Hospitality

1 The Possibility of Hospitality

2 Limited Hospitality: Election and Violence in Eternity

3 Preferential Hospitality: Election and Violence in History

Part 2 The Cruciform Face of Hospitality

4 Atonement, Metaphors, and Models

5 Modeling Hospitality: Atonement as Moral Influence

6 Atonement and Mimetic Violence

7 Hospitality, Punishment, and the Atonement

8 Atonement, Violence, and Victory

Part 3 The Public Face of Hospitality

9 The Church as the Community of Hospitality

10 Public Justice and the Hospitality of Liberation

Epilogue: The End of Violence: Eschatology and Deification

Bibliography

Subject Index

Author Index

Scripture Index

The cross is central to understanding Christian theology. But is it possible that our postmodern setting requires a new model of understanding the cross?  
  
Hans Boersma'sViolence, Hospitality, and the Crossproposes an understanding of the atonement that is sensitive both to the Christian tradition and to the postmodern critiques of that tradition. His fresh approach draws on the rich resources of the Christian tradition in its portrayal of God's hospitality in Jesus Christ.

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