Includes bibliographical references and index.

Setting the table -- Nonviolent identification and the victory of Christ / Brad Jersak -- Out of the fog : new horizons for atonement theory / Michael Hardin -- The cross and the historical Jesus -- The reasons for Jesus' crucifixion / N.T. Wright -- Executed by Rome, vindicated by God / Marcus Borg -- The atonement and sacrifice -- God's self-substitution and sacrificial inversion / James Alison -- God is not to blame : the servant's atoning suffering according to Isaiah 53 / E. Robert Ekblad -- The Franciscan opinion / Richard Rohr -- Atonement and forgiveness -- The forgiveness of sins : Hosea 11:1-9; Matthew 18:23-35; 2:14 / Rowan Williams with comments by Mark D. Baker -- The repetition of reconciliation : satisfying justice, mercy, and forgiveness / Sharon Baker -- Die with me : Jesus, Pickton and me / Brita Miko -- The atonement and justice -- Punishment and retribution : delimiting their scope in N.T. thought / C.F.D. Moule with introduction by Pierre Allard -- Forgiveness, reconciliation, and justice / Miroslav Volf -- Freed to be human and restored to family : the saving significance of the cross in a Honduran Barrio / Mark D. Baker -- The nonviolent atonement : human violence, discipleship, and God / J. Denny Weaver -- The cross : God's peace work towards a restorative peacemaking understanding of the atonement / Wayne Northey -- Good news for postmodern man : Christus Victor in the Lucan Kerygma / Nathan Rieger -- Atonement, rebirth, and deification -- Atonement : birth of a new humanity / Anthony Bartlett -- Retaining and reclaiming the divine : identification and the recapitulation of peace in St. Irenaeus of Lyons' Atonement narrative / Andrew P. Klager -- Juridical justification theology and a statement of the Orthodox teaching / Kharalambos Anstall -- Divinization, the church, and prophetic politics in our post 9-11 world / Ronald S. Dart.