Peter Laughlin is the Director of the Alliance College of Australia and Lecturer in Theology at the Australian College of Ministries, a member institution of the Sydney College of Divinity.

• Foreword by Neil OrmerodPrefaceAbbreviations1 Introduction: Cross Intentions2 Divine Action and the Contingent Cross3 Atonement, History, and Meaning4 The Meaning of Jesus' Death5 From Meaning to MotifAfterwordBibliographySubject Index Author Index

How, Laughlin asks, can we connect God's will to the cross of Jesus if the cross was itself an act of evil and injustice? How can the Christian theologian not see the inherent contradiction of God's love and grace in (an) act of such barbaric injustice? Do not some atonement theories implicate God in evil? Laughlin goes to this set of questions and to the theodicy problem to begin resolving atonement theory, and alongside that issue he contends an atonement theory must be consistent with how Jesus himself spoke of his death. This book breaks fresh ground for anyone interested in atonement theory.

Peter Laughlin is the Director of the Alliance College of Australia and Lecturer in Theology at the Australian College of Ministries, a member institution of the Sydney College of Divinity.

• Foreword by Neil OrmerodPrefaceAbbreviations1 Introduction: Cross Intentions2 Divine Action and the Contingent Cross3 Atonement, History, and Meaning4 The Meaning of Jesus' Death5 From Meaning to MotifAfterwordBibliographySubject Index Author Index

How, Laughlin asks, can we connect God's will to the cross of Jesus if the cross was itself an act of evil and injustice? How can the Christian theologian not see the inherent contradiction of God's love and grace in (an) act of such barbaric injustice? Do not some atonement theories implicate God in evil? Laughlin goes to this set of questions and to the theodicy problem to begin resolving atonement theory, and alongside that issue he contends an atonement theory must be consistent with how Jesus himself spoke of his death. This book breaks fresh ground for anyone interested in atonement theory.

Peter Laughlin is the Director of the Alliance College of Australia and Lecturer in Theology at the Australian College of Ministries, a member institution of the Sydney College of Divinity.

• Foreword by Neil OrmerodPrefaceAbbreviations1 Introduction: Cross Intentions2 Divine Action and the Contingent Cross3 Atonement, History, and Meaning4 The Meaning of Jesus' Death5 From Meaning to MotifAfterwordBibliographySubject Index Author Index

How, Laughlin asks, can we connect God's will to the cross of Jesus if the cross was itself an act of evil and injustice? How can the Christian theologian not see the inherent contradiction of God's love and grace in (an) act of such barbaric injustice? Do not some atonement theories implicate God in evil? Laughlin goes to this set of questions and to the theodicy problem to begin resolving atonement theory, and alongside that issue he contends an atonement theory must be consistent with how Jesus himself spoke of his death. This book breaks fresh ground for anyone interested in atonement theory.