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SAVED FROM SACRIFICE: A THEOLOGY OF THE CROSS (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2006)

Also please see the hymn “No More of This” elsewhere on this site.

Articles and book sections on Atonement

Why Does Jesus’ Death Matter? Christian Century    https://www.religion-online.org/article/why-does-jesus-death-matter/

How Jesus Put an End to Sacrifice  Christian Cenhttps://www.religion-online.org/article/how-jesus-put-an-end-to-sacrifice/

“Their Cross Problem and Ours: Thoughts on the Aesthetic of Crucifixion.” INTERPRETATION 76, no. 1 (January 2022): 27–38. https://doi.org/10.1177/00209643211051128.

“How Empty is the Cross?: Realization and Novelty in Atonement,” in Catherine Cornille ed., ATONEMENT AND COMPARATIVE THEOLOGY: THE CROSS IN DIALOGUE WITH OTHER RELIGIONS (New York: Fordham University Press, 2021)

“Approaches to Atonement: How Girard Changes the Debate,” in James Alison and Wolfgang Palaver eds., HANDBOOK OF MIMETIC THEORY AND RELIGION (New York: Palgrave-Macmillan, 2017)

“In What Way is Christ’s Death a Sacrifice?: Theories of Sacrifice and Theologies of the Cross,” in Carrie Murray ed., DIVERSITY OF SACRIFICE: FORM AND FUNCTION OF SACRIFICIAL PRACTICES IN THE ANCIENT WORLD AND BEYOND, The Institute for European and Mediterranean Archaeology Distinguished Monograph Series, (Albany: State University of New York Press, 2016)

“The End of Scapegoating: Violence and the Pattern of the Gospel,” CHRISTIAN REFLECTION (April, 2016) “Patterns of Violence” issue.

“Saved by What Shouldn’t Happen: The Anti-Sacrificial Meaning of the Cross,” in Marit Trelstad ed., CROSS-EXAMINATION: INTERROGATING THE CROSS FOR ITS MEANING TODAY (Minneapolis: Fortress, 2006)

“Missing the Cross: Types of the Passion in Early Christian Art,” CONTAGION 12-13, 2006, PP. 183-194.

“Cross Purposes: Rethinking the Death of Jesus,” CHRISTIAN CENTURY (March 22, 2005), pp. 20-25.

“The Future of the Cross: Symbolic Engagement with the Atonement,” in Amos Yong and Peter Heltzel eds., THEOLOGY IN GLOBAL CONTEXT: ESSAYS IN HONOR OF ROBERT NEVILLE, (New York: T&T Clark, 2004).

“A Cross-section of Sin: The Mimetic Character of Human Nature in Biological and Theological Perspective,” in Philip Clayton and Jeffrey Schloss eds., EVOLUTION AND ETHICS: HUMAN MORALITY IN BIOLOGICAL AND RELIGIOUS PERSPECTIVE (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2004)

“The Visible Victim: Christ’s Death to End Sacrifice,” Skye Fackre Gibson ed., STORY LINES: CHAPTERS ON THOUGHT, WORD, AND DEED (Essays in Honor of Gabriel Fackre) (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2002)