as to say “God has in His Son made atonement for the sin of the world.” If the propitiatory death of Jesus is eliminated from the love of God, it might be unfair to say the love of God is robbed of all meaning, but it is certainly robbed of its apostolic meaning. It no longer has that meaning which goes deeper than sin, sorrow, and death, and which recreates life in the adoring joy, wonder, and purity of the first Epistle of St. John.7 Longtime New Testament professor Gerald Hawthorne named Philippians