Rethinking the Atonement by David M. Moffitt

Author:David M. Moffitt
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: New Testament;Atonement;Jesus Christ—Crucifixion;Jesus Christ—Resurrection;Jesus Christ—Ascension;Bible—Theology;REL006100;REL067100
Publisher: Baker Publishing Group
Published: 2022-09-27T00:00:00+00:00

1. A. M. Stibbs, The Finished Work of Christ (London: Tyndale, 1954), 5.

2. Stibbs, Finished Work, 5. Stibbs states the thesis of his book as follows: “Christ’s work of offering Himself for men’s salvation is unmistakably represented in Scripture as exclusively earthly and historical, the purpose of the incarnation, wrought out in flesh and blood, in time and space, under Pontius Pilate; that by this once-for-all finished happening the necessary and intended atoning work was completely accomplished” (8, emphasis added). It is worth pointing out here that such an account of Jesus’s death as the sum total of his atoning sacrifice cannot be made to square with the actual scriptural depictions of atoning sacrifices detailed in Leviticus. Stibbs may be aware of this issue. He tellingly labels approaches that emphasize Jesus’s heavenly presentation of his atoning sacrifice to the Father as “more Jewish than fully Christian” (22). One of the problems Stibbs does not engage, however, is the very real historical one of how the first Christians, who were Jews, could have thought about sacrifice in such new and different “fully Christian” categories rather than the “Jewish” ones that they believed God gave them in Scripture.

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