"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:
Atonement: Birth of a New Humanity
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