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With his customary encyclopedic reach and epigrammatic style, Donald Bloesch turns his attention to the hotly disputed, yet absolutely crucial, subject of the person and work of Jesus Christ. He brings a much–needed clarity to the current Christological debate, which, as Hans Küng noted, “has persisted since the dawn of the modern age [and] has not yet been resolved.” Drawing on more than forty...

though it is begun and carried through by God. While Aulén and his colleague Anders Nygren43 tended to minimize the idea of the satisfaction of the law of God and the propitiation of the wrath and holiness of God, they rightly rejected a legalistic view of the atonement that reduces the sacrifice of Christ to a payment that fulfills the requirements of law. A more biblical view would see both God’s holiness and God’s love as the ground of the atonement. Today we are prone to underplay the demands
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