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John Calvin had a profound understanding of the atoning work of Christ. In this book, Robert Peterson first examines what Calvin says regarding the love of God, the Incarnation, and Christ’s offices of Prophet, Priest and King. He goes on to consider Calvin’s comments on other aspects of Christ’s work: he is the Second Adam, the Victor, the Substitute, the Sacrifice and the Example.

to do justice to Calvin as a clear and careful thinker. It fails to see the compatibility between particularism and the universal preaching of the gospel. Instead, I prefer to view the two strains in Calvin as a reflection of the Bible’s own antinomy between divine sovereignty and human responsibility.12 I also regard the appeal to these systematic themes as insufficient to decide the question of Calvin’s view on limited/unlimited atonement. The very fact that scholars have to appeal to systematic
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