We continue our Lenten series on Fleming Rutledge’s outstanding book, The Crucifixion: Understanding the Death of Jesus Christ (2015).
We are continuing in the concluding chapter. The title is designed to be arresting – we will explore what she means by it as we go.
Rutledge is leaning towards all distinctions that separate people from one another, in the very end, being overcome through the crucifixion of Jesus Christ. (577)
But how is such a universalist impulse compatible with how
“the Old Testament is packed with references to the woeful destiny of the ungodly”? (577)
Rutledge does not so much…
