C. Baxter Kruger has started blogging. When he’s not fishing, Dr Kruger (whose doctoral supervisor was James Torrance) serves as the Director of Perichoresis Ministries. He has authored 7 books, including The Great Dance, Jesus and the Undoing of Adam and Across All Worlds (which I mentioned here). I also mentioned Baxter in this review on the recent book, An Introduction to Torrance Theology.

He writes on in his first posting:

It was not the Father’s anger or the Holy Spirit’s that was poured out on Jesus; it was ours. We rejected him, cursed him, beat him and brutally murdered him. Either the Father, Son and Spirit were caught off guard by our horrific response to Jesus, or our bitter rejection of Jesus was clearly anticipated and deliberately used as the way of reconciliation.

Along with the launch of his blog, Baxter has made available a copy of his latest essay, ‘Bearing Our Scorn’. Here’s a taster from that essay:

The eternal, unflinching purpose of the Father, Son and Spirit is to share their trinitarian life with us, and to bring us to taste and feel and know and experience their shared life—adoption. But such sharing of life necessarily involves meeting us where we are in our tragic alienation. “Reconciliation means sharing in all that the other is.” But how can the Lord really meet us in our fallenness, share in our confusion, and identify with us? It would seem impossible that the blessed Trinity could so enter into our miserable, projecting nightmare as to make contact with the real us. But what is reconciliation if it leaves the real us trapped in our confusion, unable to hear and see and receive the Father’s love? What kind of reconciliation would it be that declared humanity legally clean, yet left us lost in the cosmos of the fallen mind and its appalling pain?