Sojourner #091: The Death of Christ; Recovering the Glory of God's Redemption
“For the word of the cross is folly to those who are perishing, but to us who are being saved it is the power of God.” (1 Cor. 1:18, ESV) The Death of Christ: Recovering the Glory of God’s Redemption Sojourner Magazine reviews books provided by Crossway in exchange for an honest review. The Cross at the Center of History There is no more consequential event in redemptive history than the death of Christ. It is there that He died. He died. He died under the wrath of God. He died accomplishing something, crying out in the declarative, “It is finished.” The question Owen presses, and which this volume examines in great detail, is deceptively simple: What is finished? What happened at the cross? What did Christ accomplish there, and for whom? What does the Bible say about the cross? For many Christians, the great tragedy of our time is not an open denial of the cross, but a superficial familiarity with it. The cross adorns necklaces and t-shirts and billboards. It is printed on church sign...
