Here is a great story from NPR about the latest book from Brian McLaren. (Quote from McLaren below) Good story, although I wish they would have interviewed Keller or N.T. Wright instead of some of the others.
“The view of the cross that I was given growing up, in a sense, has a God who needs blood in order to be appeased,” McLaren says. “If this God doesn’t see blood, God can’t forgive.”
McLaren believes that version of God is a misreading of the Bible.
“God revealed in Christ crucified shows us a vision of God that identifies with the victim rather than the perpetrator, identifies with the one suffering rather than the one inflicting suffering,” he says
I will not be reading it. Sorry Brian.
