I want to recommend a great book! I am going to try and make time to come back and write a brief summary tomorrow of what I have read so far, but this book deserves the energy it takes to read it. It is called "Pierced for Our Trangressions, Rediscovering the Glory of Penal Substitution" by Steve Jeffrey, Michael Ovey, and Andrew Sach. It is written in the great tradition of Reformed Theology and has truly blown me away. I really needed to re-examine and get a fresh grasp on what Jesus did at the cross and how He literally bore my sins in His body while also very literally satisfying the wrath of God that I deserve! It is a deep book, but so worth the read!! Please invest in the study!
This book is important not only because it deals so competently with what lies at the heart of Christ's cross work, but because it responds effectively to a new generation of people who are not listening very carefully to what either Scripture or history says. One of the delightful features of this book is reflected in the subtitle: the authors make no apology for their thesis, but underscore the glory of penal substitution. This book deserves the widespread circulation achieved by corresponding contributions a generation ago - the contributions of Leon Morris, Jim Packer, and John Stott.
D. A. Carson, Research Professor of New Testament, Trinity Evangelical Divinity School, Deerfield, Illinois
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Interesting that you are looking at this subject in this perspective as on who has said of himself that the Emergent Church and its leaders have influenced you. Mr. D.A. Carlson has been critial of the Emergent "Conversation". Certainly based on your summary of the thrust of this book that you are recommending, you may need to rethink your position concerning the movement. With just a quick search looking for an article I read a year or so ago from D.A. Carlson on the EC I happend across this aricle from his son. I did not know his son's history in dealing with some of the movements ?founders?. Anyway, here is the link to that article and if I find the original D.A. Carlson article I will post it too.
http://gomarus.wordpress.com/2006/09/08/a-telling-story-regarding-the-emergent-church/
Remember that a quest for knowledge of God can never be greater than a quest to "know" God.
Thanks Mark! Yes there have been times that I wanted to be hip to the Emergent church world, but it has never been a fit for me. I have wanted to embrace certain things about the relational aspects of the movement, but the absence of absolute truth I cannot do! The absence of a need for atonement I cannot do. I have concluded that a half-truth is not truth! And yes, knowing the God behind the knowledge is certainly the goal!
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