theologians were influenced by the concept of a feudal overlord whose dignity was injured by his serfs. While reflecting a keen awareness of sin and the solidarity of the race, this theory focused largely on God’s injured honor and paid less attention to the penal and substitutionary nature of Christ’s death. Unlike the focus of the previous two theories, that of the juridicial theory is primarily Godward. In his essay Cur Deus Homo (Why God [Became] Man), Anselm claims that sin is the failure to