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Building on Covenant and Eschatology: The Divine Drama, this volume is part two of a three-part project surveying essential topics of Christian theology through the lens of covenant. In Lord and Servant: A Covenant Christology, Michael Horton explores the topics that are generally grouped under the doctrines of God, humanity, and Christology. Rather than attempt a general systematic theology,...

Christ by suffering endured the penalty of sin, and that His suffering was strictly vicarious. The death of Christ is merely a tribute offered voluntarily to the honor of the Father.” It constitutes the “doctrine of penance applied to the work of Christ.”8 A third problem with Anselm’s account is that it has no place for the active obedience of Christ. “The whole emphasis is on the death of Christ, and no justice is done to the redemptive significance of his life.”9 Finally, “In Anselm’s presentation
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