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The Biographical Dictionary of Evangelicals contains biographies of more than four hundred prominent evangelicals and evangelical forebears. Each of these figures has significantly influenced the evangelical community: to learn about them is better to understand the history and present nature of that community. The volume ranges chronologically from the morning star of the Reformation, John...

the nature of the atonement. Here Murray took up the biblical Adam-Christ parallel in stressing the importance of the obedience of Christ as the ‘inclusive category in terms of which the atoning work of Christ may be viewed’ (p. 24). Throughout his work a strong emphasis is found not only on both the active and passive obedience of Christ but also on the progressive nature of that obedience: not from imperfection to perfection, but from childhood through to maturity. Within this context, Murray was