Greg Boyd's Crucifixion of the Warrior God

Greg Boyd has recently released his two volume book, Crucifixion of the Warrior God. In these volumes, he attempts to reconcile violent passages such as God's command to Joshua to wipe out the Canaanites. He does this through what he calls literary crucifixes in that just as Jesus allowed himself to be seen as a criminal in the eyes of many while on the cross, God only appeared to show himself as violent and retributive before the nations through Israel. It seems to me in light of our post-modern western sensibilities that in desire to protect God from any word or action that may offend, we like Boyd our re-envisioning scripture to meet these concerns.