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