Lamb of the Free: A Critical Review

October 15th, 2025 | 59 min read

Andrew Remington Rillera. Lamb of the Free: Recovering the Varied Sacrificial Understandings of Jesus's Death. Eugene OR: Cascade Books, 2024. 356 pp, $39.

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Derek Rishmawy

Derek Rishmawy (PhD, Trinity Evangelical Divinity School) is the RUF campus minister at the University of California-Irvine. He contributes to Mere Orthodoxy, Christianity Today, and The Gospel Coalition, and writes at his own blog, Reformedish. He also co-hosts Mere Fidelity and is host of the “What Christians Believe’ Podcast at byFaith. You can follow him on Twitter @dzrishmawy.

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