Cafe Theologique with James Alison: Did God kill Jesus?
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The story Christians often tell about the meaning of Easter can sound a bit ghoulish: God can't stand you, indeed God is so angry with you that you deserve to be tortured forever. So to save you, God worked out that anger on Jesus, torturing and killing him instead of us.
It doesn't seem to fit with 'God so loved world...', but if not this story, is there another story that can help us make sense of the death of Jesus?
World-renowned theologian James Alison says that there is. And it is just as revolutionary and world-changing as we always hoped.