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It is NOT finished! Why salvation requires more than Jesus's death on a cross
This is a segment of my conversation with Dr. David Moffitt about the atonement. Models of atonement (Christus victor, substitution, moral exemplar, etc.) often focus especially, if not exclusively, on Jesus's crucifixion, but is this the way that the New Testament writers actually thought about salvation? Moffitt argues that the statement "it is finished!" in the Gospel of John cannot entail the totality of Christ's salvific work. Here we talk about how to situate Jesus's crucifixion within a larger process of salvation, with attention to Jesus's resurrection, ascension, and ongoing intercessory work on our behalf. In short, if you think atonement is all about the death of Jesus, think again!

Dr. Moffitt is Reader in New Testament at the University of St. Andrews. His work is especially focused on the Epistle to the Hebrews and the strategies the text employs to interpret early Christian claims about Jesus’s person, death, resurrection, and ascension in high-priestly and sacrificial terms. His book on Hebrews (Atonement and the Logic of Resurrection in the Epistle to the Hebrews) attempts to show that the Christology and Soteriology developed by the author rests upon his correlation of the basic narrative of early Christian proclamation (i.e., Jesus’ life, death, resurrection, and ascension) with the ritual process of the Yom Kippur sacrifices, the end goal of which was the restoration and maintenance of fellowship between God and creation (i.e., atonement). His book Atonement and the Logic of Resurrection in the Epistle to the Hebrews was a recipient of a Manfred Lautenschläger Award for Theological Promise (2013).

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