Holy Week, 2008
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Weaver goes on to explore the non-violent approach of Jesus as he proclaimed and lived out the Kingdom of God.


“Jesus was ready to die and he was willing to die. It was not a death, however, that was required as compensatory retribution for the sins of his enemies and his friends. It was a death that resulted from fulfilment of his mission of his mission about the reign of God.”


Weaver challenges a narrow understanding of atonement based on retributive justice. Here, he says, we see Jesus talking about and modeling an understanding of salvation that is about being free from the evil forces represented by the imperial structures, the holiness code, the mob and the compromising actions and attitudes of his own disciples.
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