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Why have Jesus have to pass away? Was it to appease a wrathful God's demand for punishment? Does that mean Jesus died to save lots of us from God? How could someone ever truly love or trust a God like this? How can that ever be called ''Good News''? It's questions like these that make more and more people want nothing in connection with Christianity. Recovering the Gospel issues the assumption that the Christian understanding of justice is rooted in a demand for violent punishment, and instead offers a radically different understanding of the gospel predicated on God's restorative justice. Linking our own experience of faith with the New Testament narrative, author Derek Flood shows us an understanding of the cross that not only shows God's heart of elegance, but also models our very own way of Christ-like love. It's a perspective of the gospel that exposes violence, rather than aiding it - a gospel rooted in love of opponents, rather than retribution. The effect is a nonviolent understanding of the atonement that's not only extensively biblical, but can help people fighting their faith to encounter elegance.
