The Wondrous Cross: Atonement and Penal Substitution in the Bible and History (Biblia.com)

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In this book, Stephen Holmes offers an accessible and authoritative account of the way the saving work of Jesus is presented in the Bible, and has been understood throughout Christian history. In particular, the book offers background to the current debates about penal substitutionary atonement by looking at that idea in biblical and historical perspective. Holmes argues that we...

him. Those who shape and lead public prayer need to teach their people to speak rightly of God. Just as we will never understand the mystery of the Trinity, or how Christ can be both truly divine and truly human, so we will, of course, never truly understand the indescribable gift of God in Jesus and his cross. (‘In vain the firstborn seraph tries to sound the depths of love divine. ‘Tis mystery all, let earth adore, let angel minds enquire no more!’) But just as we have learnt that some ways of

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