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Title: Christus Victor: An Historical Study of the Three Main Types of the Idea of Atonement by Gustaf Aulen, A. G. Herber ISBN: 1-59244-330-3 Publisher: Wipf & Stock Publishers Pub. Date: September, 2003 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $24.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4 (1 review)
Rating: 4
Summary: A provocative and important analysis of the Atonement
Comment: No Christian committed to the teaching of Scripture would deny that the doctrine of the atonement is the heart of the Christian gospel. The Scripture clearly teaches that Christ's death as an atonement for sin will result in the salvation of the world. But the dominant view of how the Church has understood how this works has changed dramatically over the last thousand years. Most modern Christians (not including those in the Orthodox Church) have a system of how and why this exchange took place which was not articulated until Anselm in the Scholastic period. This system in all it's most important intricacies is held by most as not only essential orthodox dogma but as the center of the Christian faith.
This book brings the view of this system (and the view that later opposed it) under the microscope as no other work has done before. Aulen analyzes these views in light of the dominant teaching of the Church for the first millenium of Church history (known as the "Classic/Patristic/Greek" view). He also has some interesting insight into the strength of Martin Luther's atonement theology.
My personal qualms with this work are that
1. he lays out the Patristic view as the teaching of the Bible but is not very convincing
2. Luther's views on Law and Wrath do not line up with Biblical teaching and are certainly not the pinical of Christian teaching on the atonement
3. he does not understand the history of the doctrine of the Reformed Church and therefore lumps it all together. BTW this is a problem with a lot of modern critics of teaching on the atonement (& justification) in the Western Church, including my favorite N.T. Wright.
Though I have quarrels with some of Aulen's views, this book brings a most important issue into focus and does a great job of starting a conversation between differing wings of the Christian Church. Thank you Wipf & Stock for reprinting this invaluable work.
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Title: The Nonviolent Atonement by J. Denny Weaver ISBN: 0802849083 Publisher: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Company Pub. Date: 01 November, 2001 List Price(USD): $22.00 |
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Title: Recovering the Scandal of the Cross: Atonement in New Testament & Contemporary Contexts by Joel B. Green, Mark D. Baker ISBN: 0830815716 Publisher: InterVarsity Press Pub. Date: 01 September, 2000 List Price(USD): $16.00 |
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Title: Everlasting Righteousness by Horatius Bonar ISBN: 0851516556 Publisher: Banner of Truth Pub. Date: 01 December, 1996 List Price(USD): $7.50 |
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Title: Ancient-Future Evangelism: Making Your Church a Faith-Forming Community (Webber, Robert. Ancient-Future Faith Series.) by Robert E. Webber ISBN: 0801091608 Publisher: Baker Books Pub. Date: 01 October, 2003 List Price(USD): $14.99 |
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Title: The Origins of the Liturgical Year by Thomas J. Talley ISBN: 0814660754 Publisher: Liturgical Press Pub. Date: 01 April, 1991 List Price(USD): $29.95 |
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