Description
Book SynopsisTraditional views of the atonement tend to be reductive, focusing solely on Jesus's death on the cross. In his 2011 groundbreaking book Atonement and the Logic of Resurrection in the Epistle to the Hebrews, David Moffitt challenged that paradigm, showing how the atonement is a fuller process. It involves not only Jesus's death but also his resurrection, ascension, offering, and exaltation. In the succeeding years, Moffitt has continued to expand and clarify his thinking on this issue. This book offers a more fulsome articulation of his work on the atonement that reflects his recent thinking on the topic. Moffitt continues to challenge reductive views of the atonement, primarily from the book of Hebrews, but he engages other New Testament passages as well. He offers fresh insights on sacrifice and atonement, the importance of resurrection and ascension, Jesus's role as priest, and a new perspective on Hebrews. This important book brings Moffitt's award-winning and influential scholarship to a broader audience. The book includes a foreword by N. T. Wright.
Table of ContentsContents
Foreword by N. T. Wright
1. Rethinking the Atonement:
An Introduction2. Modeled on Moses:
Jesus's Death, Passover, and the Defeat of the Devil in the Epistle to the Hebrews3. Wilderness Identity and Pentateuchal Narrative:
Distinguishing between Jesus's Inauguration and Maintenance of the New Covenant in Hebrews4. Isaiah 53, Hebrews, and Covenant Renewal
5. "If Another Priest Arises":
Jesus's Resurrection and the High-Priestly
Christology of Hebrews6. Blood, Life, and Atonement:
Reassessing Hebrews' Christological Appropriation of Yom Kippur7. Weak and Useless?
Purity, the Mosaic Law, and Perfection in
Hebrews8. Serving in the Tabernacle in Heaven:
Sacred Space, Jesus's High-Priestly Sacrifice, and Hebrews' Analogical Theology9. It Is Not Finished:
Jesus's Perpetual Atoning Work as the Heavenly High Priest in Hebrews
10. Observations on Directional Features of the Incarnation and Jesus's Sacrifice in Hebrews
11. Jesus's Heavenly Sacrifice in Early Christian Reception of Hebrews:
A Survey12. Righteous Bloodshed, Matthew's Passion Narrative, and the Temple's
Destruction:
Lamentations as a Matthean Intertext13. The Sign of Jonah and the Prophet Motif in the Gospel of Matthew:
Moving toward the Gentile Mission14. Atonement at the Right Hand:
The Sacrificial Significance of Jesus's Exaltation in Acts15. Affirming the "Creed":
The Extent of Paul's Citation of an Early
Christian Formula in 1 Corinthians 15:3b-7Indexes
