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This modern classic of biblical scholarship explains what the apostles meant when they used such words as “redeem,” “covenant,” “propitiate,” “reconcile,” and “justify.” Leon Morris carefully explores these themes against the backgrounds of both Old Testament Judaism and New Testament Christianity—a rewarding task that results in a more complete understanding of these key Christian terms.

Redemption is a term which is employed very loosely in much modern theological writing. It is often used almost exactly like ‘deliverance’. Or Christianity may be classed as ‘a religion of redemption’, i.e. one which promises man salvation from his predicament as a sinner, in contrast to ‘religions of law’, which look to man to bring about this desirable state of affairs by his own efforts. It would be going too far to say that there are as many meanings as there are users of
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