Ask Augustine
Berkley Professor of Theology Rita Nakashima Brock says that “Christ’s death upon the cross has no place in authentic Christianity,” and that “the atonement of Christ was a concoction of male church leaders in the 10th century when they began celebrating bread and wine communion.” How would you confront her comments? There has never been a period in Christian history when the significance and the necessity of the cross have been more controversial than in our present day. It never ceases to amaze me how contemporary theologians and other post-modern academicians will accept ...
