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For whom did Christ die? Who may be saved? are questions of perennial interest and importance for the Christian faith. In a familiar Counterpoints format, this book explores the question of the extent of Christ’s atonement, going beyond simple Reformed vs. non-Reformed understandings. This volume elevates the conversation to a broader plane, including contributors who represent the breadth of...

hope you will gain from this introduction: a clear sense that the extent of the atonement is a synthetic doctrine, one developed by sets of commitments in a range of different doctrines, many of which have a range of possible meanings and come together to form the doctrine. And this brings us to what I take to be the greatest contribution of this volume: its ecumenical approach. As a college student, I understood there to be two positions on the extent of the atonement: the Reformed (stretching back
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