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Tabletalk Magazine, May 2011: The 11th Century: Conflict, Crusades, and the New Christendom is unavailable, but you can change that!

The May 2011 issue of Tabletalk continues our ongoing series on the history of the church. It focuses on the eleventh century looking at the great schism between the churches in the East and West, the investiture controversy, the crusades, and Anselm of Canterbury. Contributors include R. C. Sproul, Michael Brown, Mark Driscoll, Robert Godfrey, Justin Holcomb, Keith Mathison, Nick Needham,...

more than any of the other thinkers of antiquity, plumbed the depths of the substitutionary, satisfaction view of the atonement. In his book Cur Deus Homo (why the God-man?), he saw the work of Christ on the cross as an act of propitiation by which Jesus satisfied the demands of God’s justice. Neither the Devil nor human desires were satisfied, but God Himself. Neither was the wrath of God satisfied so much as His justice, which Anselm defined as His righteousness or rectitude. Paul writes that in
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