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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.”

cannot do for one another. With reference to the Atonement, the demand for ethical treatment is usually expressed in two ways, (a) There is the demand for analogies to it in human life. The demand is justifiable, in so far as God has made man in His own image; but, as has been suggested above, it has a limit, in so far as God is God and not man, and must have relations to the human race which its members do not and cannot have to each other. (b) There is the demand that the Atonement shall be exhibited
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