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

by Michael J. Gorman

I have been arguing that the New Testament writers are far less interested in the mechanics of atonement than they are in the results of atonement. In fact, I would suggest that the mechanics are largely a mystery and will always be precisely that. To some, my claim that the new-covenant