We continue our Lenten series on Fleming Rutledge’s outstanding book, The Crucifixion: Understanding the Death of Jesus Christ (2015).
In this post we begin Chapter 6, ‘The Blood Sacrifice’
I think Rutledge is right to say at the start of this chapter that there is, in some quarters, a certain distaste or disdain for much talk of the blood imagery of the Bible today. She tells stories of where she was politely requested not to talk of ‘the blood’ at Easter sermons.
Yet, the theme of ‘blood’ is a prominent one in the New Testament.
How much is this image…
