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TABLE OF CONTENTS
Foreword
Willard Swartley
Preface
Michael Hardin

PART I: SETTING THE TABLE
Chapter One:
Nonviolent Identification and the Victory of Christ
Brad Jersak
Chapter Two:
Out Of The Fog:
New Horizons for Atonement Theory
Michael Hardin

PART II: THE CROSS AND THE HISTORICAL JESUS
Chapter Three:
The Reasons for Jesus’ Crucifixion
N.T. Wright
Chapter Four:
Executed By Rome, Vindicated By God
Marcus Borg

PART III: ATONEMENT AND SACRIFICE
Chapter Five:
God’s Self-Substitution and Sacrificial Inversion
James Alison
Chapter Six:
God Is Not To Blame:
The Servant’s Atoning Suffering According to the LXX of Isaiah 53
E. Robert Ekblad
Chapter Seven:
The Franciscan Opinion
Richard Rohr

PART IV: ATONEMENT AND FORGIVENESS
Chapter Eight:
The Forgiveness of Sins
Hosea 11:1-9; Matthew 18:23-35
Rowan Williams with Comments by Mark D. Baker
Chapter Nine:
The Repetition of Reconciliation:
Satisfying Justice, Mercy, And Forgiveness
Sharon Baker
Chapter Ten:
Die With Me: Jesus, Pickton and Me
Brita Miko

PART V: ATONEMENT & JUSTICE
Chapter Eleven:
Punishment and Retribution:
Delimiting Their Scope in N.T. Thought
C.F.D. Moule with Introduction by Pierre Allard
Chapter Twelve:
Forgiveness, Reconciliation, and Justice
Miroslav Volf
Chapter Thirteen:
Freed to be Human and Restored to Family:
The Saving Significance of the Cross in a Honduran Barrio
Mark D. Baker

PART VI: ATONEMENT AND NONVIOLENT VICTORY
Chapter Fourteen:
The Nonviolent Atonement: Human Violence,
Discipleship and God
J. Denny Weaver
Chapter Fifteen:
The Cross: God’s Peace Work
Towards a Restorative Peacemaking Understanding of the Atonement
Wayne Northey
Chapter Sixteen:
Good News for Postmodern Man:
Christus Victor in the Lucan Kerygma
Nathan Rieger

PART VII: ATONEMENT, REBIRTH & DEIFICATION
Chapter Seventeen:
Wide Open: Atonement as Human Re-Creation
Anthony Bartlett
Chapter Eighteen:
Retaining and Reclaiming the Divine:
Identification and the Recapitulation of Peace
in St. Irenaeus Of Lyons’ Atonement Narrative
Andrew P. Klager
Chapter Nineteen:
Juridical Justification Theology
and a Statement of the Orthodox Teaching
Kharalambos Anstall
Chapter Twenty:
Divinization, the Church and Prophetic Politics
in Our Post 9-11 World
Ronald S. Dart

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