Does God use violence to redeem us?

What is the relationship between divine love and violence in regard to the saving significance of the cross of Christ? In Love, Violence, and the Cross, Gregory Love dialogues with two responses to this question, while presenting a third alternative in which Jesuss death is simultaneously a crime and an element of Gods saving actions.
Through familiar stories in history, literature, and film, Love presents five constructive models that cumulatively affirm Gods saving act in the person and work of Christ while letting go the myth of redemptive violence....