Posted on Mar 29th, 2013 in
atonement,
Christianity,
Easter,
God,
Good Friday,
pain,
penal substitution,
reconciliation,
suffering,
theology
In my post Message to the Nones, which countered some popular but wrong-headed notions of what Christians believe about suffering, one commenter said that his major beef with Christianity is the penal substitution theory of the atonement. The good news...
For the epigraph in my book No Easy Choice, I chose a stanza from Wendell Berry’s poem “The Way of Pain,” and titled the final chapter using one line from that stanza: “The only way is hard.” In that chapter, I wrote: It