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Adam Johnson has already established himself as a leading theologian of the atonement, but in The Reconciling Wisdom of God: Reframing the Doctrine of the Atonement he considers the atonement in light of God’s wisdom, rather than simply as an act of justice. By studying the atonement through the lens of God’s infinite wisdom, Johnson is able to speak meaningfully across the lines between the...

do this, we will not begin at the beginning—not in Jerusalem with the death and resurrection of Jesus—but in Sweden in 1930. Gustaf Aulén, a Swedish theologian, sought to move past the division he perceived between the rationalistic Lutheran orthodoxy and the liberal theology of his day. To do so, he developed a historical and theological account of the atonement, positing three major periods in the history of the church.2 In the first millennium (and in the writings of
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