'Perhaps the best way of constructing the idea of punishment in our time is in terms of exclusion or rejection. If God is to exclude violence and injustice from his coming kingdom, something has to be done about violence and injustice and every form of enmity that seek to thwart God's good purposes. These are manifestations of the reign of Sin and Death, and they cannot be overlooked or ignored - although many construals of salvation attempt to do so.'
Fleming Rutledge, The Crucifixion, p.504.
