The Death of the Messiah and the Birth of the New Covenant: A (Not So) New Model of the Atonement

by Michael J. Gorman

the how—of atonement will suggest that it is insufficient as a model because it only claims that the cross effected atonement, not how it did so, when in fact the how—or at least the why—is the purpose of a theory or model of the atonement.