Something I found about The Atonement Wars

A while ago I started doing a review of a book which I never finished, and probably never will. It is very hard to pick up a book that dries up your bones when you read it. The book was Stricken by God? and I never read the last few chapters, but basically it is about 'rediscovering' the meaning of the atonement of Jesus. In simple words, denying it with fancy words. That's why I found this article very interesting, as this is what the dry bones book I was reading is based on, in fact, these guys are even in the book. Anyone familiar with Stricken by God will recognize this thought pattern and these names. Here's a quote from the article (which I actually found on some rabbit trail through Walter Martin's website)...

"Two books written by evangelicals were the two precipitating factors; one was published in the United Kingdom, and the other in America. In The Lost Message of Jesus, widely known British evangelical Steve Chalke opposed PSA. His inflammatory statement that PSA was a form of "cosmic child" abuse caused concern and open controversy among other British evangelicals. In the U.S., Joel Green and Mark D. Baker recently authored "Recovering the Scandal of the Cross," published by InterVarsity Press. Green and Baker's thesis is that the New Testament displays a rich array of interpretations of the cross. Some have called their view the "kaleidoscope atonement." Their burden is to show that a monopoly exists on the view of the atonement (PSA) and that there actually are many other biblical metaphors that can enable us to communicate the cross in fresh ways to our postmodern culture. Green and Baker are not content to place PSA in the mix of cross metaphors. They are suggesting that PSA is based on a mistaken concept of God's wrath. They see PSA as promoting a "divisive child abuse model of the atonement" (p. 181). Green is a professor at Fuller Seminary, and Baker, at Biblical Seminary. These authors and a growing list of evangelicals who endorse them represent voices of dissent from a long strain of mainline evangelicals. They assert that PSA is unbecoming of a God of love, and not an adequate expression of the biblical view."

That's from an excellent article which you can find here:

The Atonement Wars
There is no Substitute for Substitution
by Orrel Steincamp
http://www.cicministry.org/scholarly/sch009.htm

It's a great find for anyone dealing with this new version of the atonement which is rapidly finding its way into Bible seminaries and churches.

The atonement war is on. If you love the truth, pick up your armor.

Therefore, take up the full armor of God, so that you will be able to resist in the evil day, and having done everything, to stand firm. Ephesians 6:13