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Aspects of the Atonement: Cross and Resurrection in the Reconciling of God and Humanity is unavailable, but you can change that!

The Christian understanding of the meaning of the death of Jesus Christ and its relationship to the salvation of sinful humanity is currently the subject of intense debate and criticism. The papers covering this important area are expanded versions of the 2006 series of Chuen King Lectures given in the Chinese University of Hong Kong. In the first two chapters Howard Marshall...

sins. He has died instead of them. True, they still die physically,4 but they do not die eternally because Christ has died instead of them, and God will not require the penalty twice as it were. One can easily see how the term “penal substitution” has popularly come to be applied to this doctrine, the theological term “penal” relating to the nature of the sufferings and death of Jesus, and the term “substitution” referring to the fact that he was bearing this penalty on behalf of others and not on
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