{"id":2888,"date":"2007-11-16T00:20:50","date_gmt":"2007-11-16T00:20:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/jesuscreed\/2007\/11\/consuming-jesus-3.html"},"modified":"2007-11-16T00:20:50","modified_gmt":"2007-11-16T00:20:50","slug":"consuming-jesus-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/jesuscreed\/2007\/11\/consuming-jesus-3.html","title":{"rendered":"Consuming Jesus 3"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>What kind of gospel, or what kind of atonement theory, must be articulated in order to lead evangelicals out of their blindness into a life that pursues both reconciliation with God and with others? This is the question asked by Paul Metzger in the 3d chapter of his book <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/redirect.html?ie=UTF8&amp;location=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2FConsuming-Jesus-Beyond-Divisions-Consumer%2Fdp%2F0802830684%3Fie%3DUTF8%26s%3Dbooks%26qid%3D1194728160%26sr%3D1-1&amp;tag=jescre-20&amp;linkCode=ur2&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=9325\">Consuming Jesus<\/a><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.assoc-amazon.com\/e\/ir?t=jescre-20&amp;l=ur2&amp;o=1\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" style=\"border:none !important;margin:0px !important\" \/><\/em>.<!--more|inline--><br \/>\nHe plays in this chp with the deep magic of Narnia and with Aslan&#8217;s victory; in short, he operates here with a strong sense of ransom theory: that Jesus conquers evil and liberates.<br \/>\nJesus devours legalistic distortions and divisions. &#8220;Like Aslan&#8230; Christ turned the tables on the principalities and powers by veiling himself in creaturely flesh and humbling himself to death on the cross&#8221; (76). &#8220;Separation (legalism) as well as supersessionism (gentile Christians displacing Israel) and antinomianism (antagonism to the law) are all equally demonic&#8221; (77).<br \/>\n&#8220;Today&#8217;s problems of race and class in America are not rooted in torture and oppression, but in liberated choice and pleasure: they are bound up with the subtle law of consumer preference&#8221; (80). &#8220;&#8230; one must choose to be real &#8230;&#8221;.<br \/>\n&#8220;Greedy zeal for a false utopian vision of homogeneity and upward mobility threatens to consume the church, rebuilding the wall of division between those of different ethnicities and classes through free-market consumer church-growth strategies, as well as prosperity-gospel preaching to the poor&#8221; (85). 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