Jesus and His Death: Historiography, the Historical Jesus, and Atonement Theory
Recent
scholarship on the historical Jesus has rightly focused upon how Jesus
understood his own mission. But no scholarly effort to understand the
mission of Jesus can rest content without exploring the historical
possibility that Jesus envisioned his own death. In this careful and
far-reaching study, Scot McKnight contends that Jesus did in fact
anticipate his own death, that Jesus understood his death as an atoning
sacrifice, and that his death as an atoning sacrifice stood at the heart
of Jesus own mission to protect his own followers from the judgment of
God.
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