We continue our Lenten series on Fleming Rutledge’s outstanding book, The Crucifixion: Understanding the Death of Jesus Christ (2015).
In this post we finish chapter (11) on The Substitution.
For Rutledge, the theme of substitution is an “underlying motif” which supports other themes.
It is best understood, not as a rationalistic scheme (like Hodge’s we discussed earlier), but within the overall biblical narrative.
[My Comments] This very much ties in with issues discussed much on this blog over the years – the scope of the gospel (euangelion) as the great good news about God’s fulfilled promise in Jesus the Messiah and King of Israel, come to bring liberation, forgiveness of sin, the kingdom of God and the gift of the Spirit.
This Jesus-centric gospel narrative is not to be equated with a formula of atonement-for-sin like Hodge’s. It abstracts substitution into something close to a transactional formula that…
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