Pagan or Christian? Is it pagan to insist that God required the cross work of Christ in order that he might be not only propitious toward men but also favorably disposed toward them? Liberal theologians have always thought so. But in all other religions men attempt to propitiate their gods and to win them over to clemency through some activity on their part. Christianity, however, declares that “God was, in Christ, reconciling the world to himself” (2 Cor. 5:19), that even at the time when he had