In this way some sort of comprehensive view is sought between creation, sin and redemption, a triad which the authors of Atonement Today do not wish to deny. Two specific aspects of the Reformed tradition seem to have disappeared from the theological horizon that has been scanned. In his little book entitled Christ our Penal Substitute, Dabney makes frequent use of the term ‘relational’, as do the authors of Atonement Today and many others. In fact few expressions