This guy gets what’s up. I wish I’d come across him earlier. Here he discusses his work The Crucifixion of Ministry (IVP, 2007).
Andrew Purves on Christ’s vicarious humanity
a failure to give appropriate attention to the vicarious humanity of Jesus means that everything, the whole of the Christian faith, life and ministry are now cast back on us to do. At this last moment, it turns out, we are dependent on our faith, our worship, our obedience and so on, rather than on Jesus’ response […]