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Forgiveness, pardon, contrition—these ideas fit snugly in with contemporary Christian understanding. But where does atonement fit in? In this volume, James Denney seeks to enlighten readers on contemporary misconceptions on the atonement of Christ—specifically the penal nature of his atonement—and on what that has meant for Christianity as a “historical religion.”

truth, it is a profound sympathy, which will carry the mind far; if there are lines of approach, through which the truth can find access to the mind, they are lines laid deep in the nature of things and of men, and the access which the truth finds by them is one from which it will not easily be dislodged. On the other hand, if it is antagonism which is roused in the mind by the Atonement, it is an antagonism which feels that everything is at stake. The Atonement is a reality of such a sort that it
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