is given a non-bibical pre-eminence.21 This proposition is influential at present in the Anglo-Saxon world. If nearly all of these criticisms of penal substitution retain their relevance, perhaps the hermeneutic one, expressed by C. Gunton and others has become most important, and its themes are taken up in Atonement Today. Atonement Today is interesting as it comes from what is thought to be an ‘evangelical’ stable and it shows how modern academic evangelicalism