Authority and the end of the Law

Reading J. Denny Weaver's "The Non-violent Atonement." Some interesting exegesis. He tries to explain the atonement in terms of Christ's life, death, resurrection (as am I, except including the ascension) and calls his work a narrative Christus Victor. This narrative is non-violent from God's perspective. (I remain confused as to how he escapes the sacrificial nature of Christ's death in Paul. Seems to try to "hige it in plain sight" but never succeeds.) Anyway, he says, correctly I think, that in Christ the law is judged and its power is brought to its end. Paul says as much: Christ accomplishes what the law is powerless to do: that we might meet righteous requirements and live by the Spirit (Rom. 8). However, to rule against the law is only possible for God. No one can rule against the law but him. And what rules against the law but the death and resurrection of Christ: the resurrection rules against death, the sting of which is sin, which is the power of the law (1 Cor. 15). The end (telos) of the law, for those who live by the flesh, is death. So, in condemning Jesus to die, Pilate is playing out the end of the law: Sin has put Israel in the position where their Messiah suffers as he does. This is the gateway to the resurrection which shows God's judgment against death in the judgment of his Son. Yet this death, which Pilate enacts, cannot judge the law except that authority is given to him from above (John 19:11). In acting as he does, then, with higher authority, he unwittingly takes a higher role: the vehicle through which God condemns the law in the death of his Son.

Seems to me that if God gives Pilate the authority to condemn God's Christ, and remarkably uses this death to condemn the law, then God is necessarily imlicated in the violence of the cross.