New book

A new book crossed my desk late last week, but I didn't have time to start it until Wednesday. Once I did start it, I had a hard time putting it down. Here are the details:

A Community Called Atonement
by Scot McKnight
Abingdon, 2007
176 pages, English
Paper, 6 x 9
ISBN: 9780687645541
List Price: $17.00
Your Price: $14.45
www.eisenbrauns.com/wconnect/wc.dll?ebGate~EIS~~I~MCKCOMMUN

Scot takes a very broad view of atonement, which I find to be a healthy corrective to the normal "one theory fits them all" approach of most. In fact, he likens having one theory of atonement to the golfer who only has one club for everything. A driver doesn't make a very good putter! Neither does the penal substitution theory fill the full spectrum of what atonement means. In fact, I would venture to say that it is one of the worst "clubs" to use.

Anyway, there will doubtless be quotes here in the next week or so from the book; I highly recommend it. Oh, and the next time someone says that the emerging movement takes a dim view of the cross, remember that this is the first book in a series done by emerging leaders. I think it is significant that they chose to have the lead book be on atonement :)