In the face of twentieth-century ills, we can look to the cross of Jesus as the answer to our deepest needs. In the this book, the author moves beyond traditional theories of the atonement and treats those aspects of the cross which have not received the attention they deserve and which speak more effectively to our age than to others. Following a clear statement of the biblical teaching of the utter necessity of the cross and a brief consideration of some representative traditional views, Morris breaks new ground with chapters on the cross as the answer to the pervasive modern maladies of Futility, Ignorance, Loneliness, Sickness and Death, and Selfishness.