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Urban Legends of Church History surveys forty of the most commonly misunderstood events of church history from the period of the early church through the modern age. While these “urban legends” sometimes arise out of falsehood or fabrication, they are often the product of an exaggerated recounting of actual historical events. With a pastoral tone and helpful explanations, authors John Adair and...

Anselm of Canterbury (1033–1109) was the first person to articulate substitutionary atonement. His writing Cur Deus Homo (Why God Became Man) originally voiced the doctrine that Christ suffered and died as a penal substitute for sinners. Until that time, earlier church fathers and medieval theologians held to the Christus Victor (“Christ as Victor”) theory or some other nonpenal substitutionary view of
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