For as regards to thousand years, Christian theology has been captivated by means of a sacrificial rendering of the Gospel that renders God as retributive, arbitrary, and Janus-faced. some time past fifty years a non-sacrificial method of perceiving the Gospel, God, and the challenge and message of Jesus has challenged this sacrificial hegemony. Now what started as a trickle within the Nineteen Sixties has burst the dam and the Gospel is on a collision path with Christianity. What are a number of the implications of this second? what's the crucial harmony in a non-sacrificial theology, ethics, and spirituality? What does Christian doctrine appear like if one gets rid of retributive economies of exchange?

"The Gospel is on a collision path with Christianity, Michael Hardin says. it is time to depart the two-faced God of traditional Christianity in the back of and realize (at last!) the nonviolent personality of God published within the one face of the crucified Christ. Sound fascinating? do not miss Mimetic thought and Biblical Interpretation. it truly is daring, transparent, and wanted now greater than ever."
--Brian D. McLaren, writer of The nice religious Migration
 
"One of Rene Girard's so much able and artistic interpreters is Michael Hardin. during this gripping and succinct quantity Hardin demonstrates that Girard's perspectives of sacred violence, sacrifice, and the scapegoat weren't unique with him, however the Bible; Girard's nonviolent God and forgiving-victim Jesus usually are not modern suggestions, yet are deeply rooted not just in the scriptures, yet orthodox Christian theology. this can be a excellent brief creation to the theological and biblical implications of Girard."
--John E. Phelan Jr., Senior Professor of Theological stories, North Park Theological Seminary
 
"This is a passionate assertion connecting Girardian concept with the translation of the Bible within the glossy US context, with a splash of Barthianism thrown in for solid degree. . . . Hardin's uncompromising assessments will problem a few of his readers. yet this ebook has a marginally of the prophetic. Its exposes of violence are wanted now greater than ever." 
--Douglas A. Campbell, Professor of latest testomony, The Divinity tuition, Duke University 
 
"What we expect approximately God matters--a subject of existence and demise for lots of hundreds of thousands through the centuries of Christian violence. . . . I basically think that this booklet will shine a mild at the direction again domestic to God in case you are disillusioned, disappointed, and dismayed by means of the modern church. In different phrases, Michael Hardin has given us again a God stolen from us through the church--a God of immeasurable, unfettered love, unending extravagant grace, and incalculable unbounded redemption."
--Sharon L. Putt, Professor of Theology and Religion, Messiah College

Michael Hardin is the cofounder and government director of Preaching Peace, cofounder of Theology and Peace, and is the coeditor of Compassionate Eschatology, editor of Reading the Bible with Rene Girard, and writer of the acclaimed The Jesus Driven Life, as well as different books and essays. together with his spouse, Lorri, Michael has taken classes for the prior decade on wasteland survival and local American therapeutic traditions. he's a singer/songwriter.