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The Nature of the Atonement: Four Views is unavailable, but you can change that!

A long history of biblical exegesis and theological reflection has shaped our understanding of the atonement today. The more prominent highlights of this history have acquired familiar names for the household of faith: Christus Victor, penal substitutionary, subjective, and governmental. Recently the penal substitutionary view, and particularly its misappropriations, has been critiqued, and a...

THOMAS R. SCHREINER The theory of penal substitution is the heart and soul of an evangelical view of the atonement.1 I am not claiming that it is the only truth about the atonement taught in the Scriptures. Nor am I claiming that penal substitution is emphasized in every piece of literature or that every author articulates clearly penal substitution.2 I am claiming that penal substitution functions as the anchor and foundation for all other dimensions of the atonement
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