The Gospel of Christ Crucified offers a biblical reconstruction of the principal elements that make up the apostolic gospel.
In this way, their presupposed expectations of the future and eternal life remained fundamentally unaltered--the day of the Lord, resurrection of the dead, and kingdom of God would assuredly come because their Messia.
Assuming a first-century Jewish worldview, the apostles understood the death of Jesus primarily in sacrificial terms for the atonement of sins.
The Gospel of Christ Crucified offers a biblical reconstruction of the principal elements that make up the apostolic gospel