The Crucifixion of the Warrior God
Subtitle: interpreting the Old Testament's violent portraits of God in light of the cross
Publisher: Fortress Press
Published: 2017
Place of publication: Minneapolis, MN
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 1492
ISBN-13: 9781506420752
Description: In an epic constructive investigation, The Crucifixion of the Warrior God addresses the tension between Scripture’s violent depictions of God and the non-violent, self-sacrificial God that was supremely revealed on the cross. Over two volumes, author Gregory A. Boyd develops a theological interpretation of Scripture that he labels a “cruciform hermeneutic,” and he argues that this cruciform way of reading Scripture reframes its violent divine portraits in a way that subverts their violence and that discloses how they bear witness to the revelation of God’s non-violent love in the crucified Christ. - from publisher
Table of contents: title: Volume 1 : The cruciform hermeneutic.; title: Introduction : The "magic eye" of the crucified Christ; title: Part I. The centrality of the crucified Christ.; title: The faith of Jacob : wrestling with "strange" and "alien" portraits of God; title: The true face of God : the absoluteness of the revelation of God in Christ; title: Finding Jesus in the Old Testament : the Christocentric hermeneutic of the early church; title: The cruciform center, part 1 : the cross as the supreme revelation of God; title: The cruciform center, part 2 : the cross as the thematic center of the gospel; title: Is the centrality of the cross thesis defensible? : responding to objections; title: Part II. The problem of divine violence.; title: The dark side of the Bible : taking a hard look at scripture's "texts of terror"; title: Wrestling with Yahweh's violence, part 1 : the dismissal solution; title: Wrestling with Yahweh's violence, part 2 : the synthesis solution; title: Part III. The cruciform hermeneutic.; title: A meaning worthy of God : the reinterpretation solution; title: Through the lens of the cross : finding the crucified Christ in violent depictions of God; title: Interpreting scripture as God's Word : the cruciform hermeneutic and the theological interpretation of scripture; title: Appendixes.; title: The alleged anti-Judaic attitude of the Gospels; title: Jesus and violence; title: Violence in the Pauline Epistles; title: Violence in the Book of Revelation; title: Volume 2 : The cruciform thesis.; title: Introduction : Something else is going on; title: Part IV. The principle of cruciform accommodation.; title: The "masks" of a humble God : revelation and the eternal outpouring of the triune God; title: The heavenly missionary : Yahweh's accommodation of the law, nationalism, and violence; title: Part V. The principle of redemptive withdrawal.; title: Divine Aikido : the cross as the revelation of God's "wrath"; title: Crime and punishment : divine withdrawal and the self-destructive nature of sin; title: Doing and allowing : the crucicentric significance of scripture's dual speech pattern; title: A question of divine culpability : responding to objections to the principle of redemptive withdrawal; title: Defending divine genocide : the inadequacy of traditional defenses of the conquest narrative; title: When God's nonviolent plans fail : the cruciform interpretation of the conquest narrative; title: Part VI. The principle of cosmic conflict.; title: The battle of the gods : cosmic conflict and the Old Testament; title: Caught in the cross fire : cosmic conflict and the New Testament; title: When hell breaks loose : redemptive withdrawal and cosmic conflict; title: The dragon-swallowing dragon : examples of cosmic-level Aikido warfare; title: Part VII. The principle of semiautonomous power.; title: Mauling bears and a lethal palladium : when divine power gets misused; title: Postscript : Unlocking the secret of the scroll; title: Appendixes.; title: The escalation of violence in the Promised Land; title: Hardening people's hearts; title: Can Satan's kingdom be divided against itself?; title: The quail plague; title: The testing of Abraham; title: The issue of supersessionism; title: Suggested readings on central topics in The Crucifixion of the Warrior God