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This great work by Stone, then Principal of Pusey House at Oxford University, is a compilation of six sermons preached by him at St. Paul’s Church, Knightsbridge, and St. Barnabas’ Church, Oxford, during the season of Lent in 1919. In it, Stone addresses the theological interconnections of Sacrifice, Resurrection, and Eucharist. He begins first with the sacrificial system of Old Testament, and...

fundamental ideas.1 First, the sacrifice was a gift from man to God. As a gift, it was an acknowledgment of God’s power and supremacy, of the duty owed by the creature to the Creator. Secondly, it was a means of propitiation. The blood of the slain victim, itself the symbol of life, was offered to God as a means of pleading for forgiveness of sins. The constant meaning of the Levitical sacrifices is summed up by a sentence in the law. “The life of the flesh is in the blood: and I have given it to
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