Matthew's Journal

Roman Catholic, 'liberal orthodox' theology I'd say.

The Cross - I can see it in many ways. (Ticked lots of boxes). I tend to agree with C.S. Lewis that in a sense, it doesn't matter how the Cross 'works' in bringing about human salvation, freeing us from sin, the important thing is that it does. So people may have different conceptions that they find helpful in understanding Christ's passion.

I think my own favourite way of looking at it is that the cross wasn't so much something that made God's forgiveness possible, in some transactional sense, but that it is where God's forgiveness happened - that Jesus, as God and man, forgave those who crucified him, abandoned him, cheered for his death, etc., and in doing so, as God and man, forgave the whole of humanity, and thus freed us from sin.