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A Defence of the Catholic Faith concerning the Satisfaction of Christ, against Faustus Socinus is unavailable, but you can change that!

Prefixed to Hugo Grotius’s study of the atonement is Frank Foster’s essay on the history of the Grotian theory and the significant influence it had on atonement theology. “Its orthodox affinities are exhibited by its survival and its final adoption in an orthodox Calvinistic system, and its firm establishment there, though not conclusive proof, is at least such evidence as history can give that...

from Anselm down. And yet the doctrine which is thus undermined is in substance correct, and that propounded in its place by Socinus is wrong. What adjustment shall be made in the church doctrine to remove from it the error which Socinus refutes? It is Grotius’s immortal service to have answered this question. He silently concedes all that Socinus has to say about imputation1 and all that he hints as to the non-moral character of the attribute of justice as conceived by the Calvinists. He would
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