For just about thousand years, Christian theology has been captivated through a sacrificial rendering of the Gospel that renders God as retributive, arbitrary, and Janus-faced. some time past fifty years a non-sacrificial means of perceiving the Gospel, God, and the challenge and message of Jesus has challenged this sacrificial hegemony. Now what started as a trickle within the Sixties has burst the dam and the Gospel is on a collision path with Christianity. What are the various implications of this second? what's the vital team spirit in a non-sacrificial theology, ethics, and spirituality? What does Christian doctrine seem like if one gets rid of retributive economies of exchange?

"The Gospel is on a collision path with Christianity, Michael Hardin says. it is time to go away the two-faced God of traditional Christianity at the back of and become aware of (at last!) the nonviolent personality of God printed within the one face of the crucified Christ. Sound fascinating? do not miss Mimetic conception and Biblical Interpretation. it is daring, transparent, and wanted now greater than ever."
--Brian D. McLaren, writer of The nice non secular Migration
 
"One of Rene Girard's so much able and inventive interpreters is Michael Hardin. during this gripping and succinct quantity Hardin demonstrates that Girard's perspectives of sacred violence, sacrifice, and the scapegoat weren't unique with him, however the Bible; Girard's nonviolent God and forgiving-victim Jesus aren't modern thoughts, yet are deeply rooted not just in the scriptures, yet orthodox Christian theology. it is a marvelous brief creation to the theological and biblical implications of Girard."
--John E. Phelan Jr., Senior Professor of Theological experiences, North Park Theological Seminary
 
"This is a passionate assertion connecting Girardian idea with the translation of the Bible within the glossy US context, with a splash of Barthianism thrown in for stable degree. . . . Hardin's uncompromising assessments will problem a few of his readers. yet this booklet has a slightly of the prophetic. Its exposes of violence are wanted now greater than ever." 
--Douglas A. Campbell, Professor of latest testomony, The Divinity college, Duke University 
 
"What we expect approximately God matters--a topic of existence and loss of life for plenty of millions during the centuries of Christian violence. . . . I in actual fact think that this publication will shine a mild at the direction again domestic to God should you are upset, dissatisfied, and dismayed by way of the modern church. In different phrases, Michael Hardin has given us again a God stolen from us via the church--a God of immeasurable, unfettered love, never-ending extravagant grace, and incalculable unbounded redemption."
--Sharon L. Putt, Professor of Theology and Religion, Messiah College

Michael Hardin is the cofounder and govt director of Preaching Peace, cofounder of Theology and Peace, and is the coeditor of Compassionate Eschatology, editor of Reading the Bible with Rene Girard, and writer of the acclaimed The Jesus Driven Life, as well as different books and essays. along with his spouse, Lorri, Michael has taken classes for the prior decade on desolate tract survival and local American therapeutic traditions. he's a singer/songwriter.