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Gustaf Aulén’s classic work, Christus Victor, has long been a standard text on the atonement. Aulén applies a “history of ideas” methodology to historical theology in tracing the development of three views of the atonement. Aulén asserts that in traditional histories of the doctrine of the atonement only two views have usually been presented, the objective/Anselmian and the subjective/Aberlardian...

My work on the history of Christian doctrine has led me to an ever-deepening conviction that the traditional account of the history of the idea of the Atonement is in need of thorough revision. The subject has, indeed, received a large share of attention at the hands of theologians; yet it has been in many important respects seriously misinterpreted. It is in the hope of making some contribution to this urgently needed revision that this work has been undertaken.
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