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Approaching the Atonement: The Reconciling Work of Christ is unavailable, but you can change that!

In many ways, the death of Jesus Christ on the cross stands at the heart of the Christian faith. But how should we understand the theological significance of Christ’s death? How has the church interpreted that event in developing a doctrine of atonement? Should we limit our doctrine of the atonement to the cross, or is Christ’s work more expansive than that? Theologian Oliver Crisp explores such...

not appropriately connected to the guilty party or the teacher in order to bring about reconciliation. This raises a broader concern about conceiving of the atonement principally in the language of deterrence. One of the shortcomings of deterrence accounts of punishment is that they do not require there to be a connection between the crime or sin committed and the penalty meted out. On the deterrence view it is possible for an innocent person to suffer the harsh treatment that is due to the criminal
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