Abstract
A relational understanding of the Trinity does not lead to the abandonment of judicial metaphors for the atonement but provides a context for them. The Trinity places relationships at the heart of the moral order. Relationships involve obligations, and the cross was the triune God’s response of love to humanity’s violation of our relational obligations towards him. Both God’s judgment on sin and God’s salvation from sin are personal acts. A Chalcedonian understanding of Christ’s two natures enables us to understand Jesus’ death as the self-substitution of God for humanity and as the representative death of the perfect man, offering himself through the Spirit, on behalf of humanity. Those who are, by the Spirit, in Christ are in restored relationship with God.
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