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Proclaiming the Scandal of the Cross: Contemporary Images of the Atonement

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, 2006
ISBN: 9781441206275
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It’s not often that a book is written to answer the “So what?” question, but that’s precisely the case with Proclaiming the Scandal of the Cross. Inspiration for the book came when Mark Baker and Joel Green wrote Recovering the Scandal of the Cross, an argument against those evangelical theologians and pastors who focused on the penal satisfaction theory of the atonement to the exclusion of other complementary explanations. Readers were struck by their argument, but they asked, “How do we now preach the atonement? And how do we explain the saving significance of the cross when we evangelize?”

In Proclaiming the Scandal of the Cross, Baker brings together presentations of the atonement given in a variety of contexts, from Africa to suburban Los Angeles, from junior high Sunday school classes to coffee shops. The images and metaphors in the book have been developed by pastors, writers, and theologians, including Richard B. Hays, C. S. Lewis, Frederica Mathewes-Green, Brian D. McLaren, Luci Shaw, and Rowan Williams. Readers are invited to learn from their creative examples to proclaim the scandal of the cross in engaging ways in their own contexts. These writers reveal that Christians should embrace a whole constellation of perspectives on the atonement, all mutually reinforcing, because the language of the atonement must at once be metaphorical, pastoral, and salvific. As such, the book will appeal to pastors, professors, students, evangelists, youth leaders, and Bible study leaders who want to profit from the theology of the atonement as it applies across the whole spectrum of human experience.

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  • Offers alternatives to the penal satisfaction model of the atonement
  • Intends to serve as a catalyst to advance creative thinking about communicating the atonement today
  • Seeks to aid all readers in the task of articulating the saving significance of the cross and resurrection
  • Contextualizing the Scandal of the Cross - Mark D. Baker
  • Deeper Magic Conquers Death and the Powers of Evi - C. S. Lewis
  • Rising Victorious - Frederica Mathewes-Green
  • Atonement in the Coffee Shop - Chris Friesen
  • A Different Story: Mark 15:21–39 - Debbie Blue
  • Atonement as Drama in a Sunday School Class - Dan Whitmarsh
  • The Forgiveness of Sins: Hosea 11:1–9; Matthew 18:23–35 - Rowan Williams
  • Atonement: A Beach Parable for Youth - Mark D. Baker
  • Made New by One Man’s Obedience: Romans 5:12–19 - Richard B. Hays
  • Participation and an Atomized World: A Reflection on Christ as Representative New Adam - Steve Taylor
  • The Cross as Prophetic Action - Brian D. McLaren
  • Naked but Unashamed - Doug Frank
  • The Family Table - Grace Y. May
  • Jesus, the Ultimate Outsider - Mike McNichols
  • A Father’s Advocacy - Ryan Schellenberg
  • Present - Luci Shaw
  • Salvation through the Sacrifice of God’s Firstborn Son - Gwinyai H. Muzorewa
  • He Shared Our Aches - Curtis Chang
  • Absorbing the Three D’s of Death - Steve Todd
  • Go and Do Likewise - Mark D. Baker
Imagine theology of the atonement lived out, preached, and debated as an actual part of life! Read Proclaiming the Scandal of the Cross and this is what you will find. I couldn’t put it down and will recommend it to my students.

--William A. Dyrness, dean emeritus and senior professor of theology and culture, Fuller Theological Seminary

Perhaps all of us shudder to think how narrow our earliest understanding of the atonement was. Mark Baker’s book offers us a treasure chest filled with complementary truths presented in distinct and surprising packages. Each chapter—a gem of poetry, drama, story, or sermon—is a unique gift to enable us to see with fresh perspective and greater fullness what God has done for us in Christ at the cross and empty tomb. This collection is an outstanding contribution to widen our comprehension and deepen our adoration!

--Marva J. Dawn, author of Talking the Walk and The Sense of the Call

Mark Baker, is grateful that he has been mentored and discipled by professors and people he worked with in ministry, and grateful that he now has the opportunity to mentor students at Mennonite Brethren Biblical Theological Seminary where he began teaching in 1999. Many summers spent as a counselor at a Christian camp made a significant contribution to his leadership development. After graduating from Wheaton College in 1979 he taught four years at a bi-lingual high school in Tegucigalpa Honduras where he coordinated a youth ministry program. He then served as a campus minister with InterVarsity Christian Fellowship for three years in Syracuse N.Y. In 1989 he and his wife Lynn went to Honduras as missionaries. They worked with the Honduran equivalent of InterVarsity and co-operated with various Christian community development projects. Mark also taught part-time at a Bible institute. Mark and Lynn had been attracted to Anabaptism through reading, life experience and interaction with various Anabaptist believers. In 1992 when they moved to Durham N.C., for Mark to study theology at Duke University, they joined a Mennonite Church. In 1996 they returned to Honduras. Among other activities Mark taught at the Latin American Anabaptist Seminary. For a number of years Mark has been deeply involved with a church in a poor neighborhood in Tegucigalpa, walking with them as they seek to follow Jesus. He learned a great deal in the process, and received as he gave. His first book is a product of his conversations with these people. He remains actively involved with this church and other mission activities in Honduras through annual visits. Mark and his wife Lynn have two daughters, Julia and Christie.

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