the Cur Deus homo? he repressed, even if he could not entirely overcome, the old mythological account of Christ’s work as a victory over the devil; in place of the older and more ‘physical’ idea of salvation he put forward his teaching of a deliverance from the guilt of sin; and, above all, he clearly taught an ‘objective’ Atonement, according to which God is the object of Christ’s atoning work, and is reconciled through the satisfaction made to His justice. Needless to say, it is not implied that