Jacob Ugljesa

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That is, if we read these violent divine portraits while exercising the same surface-penetrating faith we exercise when we come to embrace the crucified Nazarene as the definitive revelation of God, we’ll see how the sin-mirroring ugliness of these literary crucifixes bears   witness   to   the   sin-mirroring   ugliness   of   the   historical Crucifixion and how the beauty of the sin-bearing God behind these literary crucifixes bears witness to the beauty of the sin-bearing God in the historical Crucifixion.
Cross Vision: How the Crucifixion of Jesus Makes Sense of Old Testament Violence
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