Violence, Hospitality, and the Cross – Reappropriating the Atonement Tradition

Hans Boersma (PhD, University of Utrecht) holds the J. I. Packer Chair of Theology at Regent College in Vancouver, British Columbia. He is the author or editor of several books, including A Hot Pepper Corn: Richard Baxter's Doctrine of Justification in Its Seventeenth-Century Context of Controversy.

• IntroductionPart 1:The Divine Face of Hospitality1. The Possibility of Hospitality2. Limited Hospitality: Election and Violence in Eternity3. Preferential Hospitality: Election and Violence in HistoryPart 2:The Cruciform Face of Hospitality 4. Atonement, Metaphors, and Models5. Modeling Hospitality: Atonement as Moral Influence6. Atonement and Mimetic Violence7. Hospitality, Punishment, and the Atonement8. Atonement, Violence, and VictoryPart 3:The Public Face of Hospitality9. The Church as the Community of Hospitality10. Public Justice and the Hospitality of LiberationEpilogueIndexes