We perhaps need to stress, as we draw together the threads of Paul’s argument, that he is persuaded of all this, and we must be too, because of the resurrection of the crucified son of God. Some have tried to make everything depend on the cross. This was partly because an older liberalism didn’t want to have the resurrection in the picture. It was also, I fear, because some preachers and teachers had a kind of tunnel-vision focus on a particular doctrine of atonement, for which the resurrection sometimes seemed barely necessary. But, as we’ve seen, it is the resurrection which declares that
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