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Can we rationally believe in an atonement we don’t understand?
August 18th, 201103:02 PM ETHaving surveyed Ken Pulliam's discussion of the PST, I have now been asked by Robert: "How do the other theories fare? I'm guessing they have problems too, since men like Luther and Calvin rejected them in favor of PST." First off, Luther actually is associated with the Christus Victor model rather than PST, though Calvin most definitely is an adv... -
The End of Christianity? A Skeptical Review (Part 8)
August 18th, 201110:00 AM ETIn chapter 7 of The End of Christianity Ken Pulliam argues for "The Absurdity of the Atonement". In fact, his essay is focused not on the atonement per se but rather on a penal substitutionary theory of atonement (henceforth PST). This is a crucial distinction to which I shall return. However, before continuing let me make a personal observation. ... -
The Death of Jesus, the rape of a woman, and a concept called “Imputation”
April 22nd, 201112:28 AM ETOn Good Friday two billion Christians around the world turn their eyes to that mysterious event two thousand years ago when Jesus Christ died "for our sins". It is a time for somber, pietistic reflection. But it is also a time to ask the hard theological question: what does that mean? Perhaps the most common explanation, at least among Protestants... -
Does doctrinal disagreement demonstrate God's incompetence?
April 17th, 201010:47 AM ETWe have been discussing the theology of atonement for the last couple weeks. In "Mysteries for Poets and Skeptics" I quoted AnAtheist.net who quipped in one of those threads (with a mischievous chortle, no doubt): "I wonder if He [God] gets a certain amount of pleasure (as much as I do) from watching all of these theologians wrestle and disagree w... -
Mysteries for Poets and Skeptics
April 15th, 201002:20 PM ETA partial response to the thread of "Do you go to hell for having the wrong theory of atonement?" AnAtheist.Net enjoys watching theologians continue to dispute a theology of atonement after two millennia: "This seems like something that God could have clarified from day one. I wonder if He gets a certain amount of pleasure (as much as I do) ... -
One dying savior and one tin soldier
April 11th, 201011:12 AM ETHere's a rush transcript of the theoretical account of atonement with which I am most sympathetic. It is a Girardean view, and I base my telling on the 1960s anti-war song "One Tin Soldier" which was recorded by "The Original Caste" and "Coven". It was a heady time of civil unrest spurred on by a pie-in-the-sky idealism combined with a gritty... -
Do you go to hell for having the wrong theory of atonement?
April 11th, 201010:54 AM ETJust before Easter I began a critique concerning a particular understanding of atonement, that encapsulated in the legal metaphor of Christ paying our debt of sin, as well as the penal substitutionary metaphor of Christ dying in our place. It is not that I deny these are metaphors of scripture. Rather, I deny that they provide a theoretical account... -
Is love a many splendored thing, or is it just a way to get what you want?
April 06th, 201002:22 PM ETWhen my brother was in university, one of his English professors defined love as "two people agreeing to use one another." Seems a little bit cynical, no? But depending on one's worldview, it may not be that crazy after all. Andrew Brown opens his book The Darwin Wars (Touchstone, 1999) with an account of the suicide of George Price. As Brown expla... -
Why cannot God just forgive?
April 03rd, 201002:25 PM ETIn my last post "God was in Christ reconciling the world, but how exactly?" I explained and critiqued a Judge Judy analogy of the atonement. Some of the subsequent discussion focused in on the plaintiff Suzy. Who is this individual and what role does she play in the analogy? beetle496 attempts to summarize the discussion in the thread on Suzy's ro... -
“God was in Christ reconciling the world, but how exactly?”
April 01st, 201002:50 PM ETAccording to Paul, God was in Christ "katallassō" or "reconciling" the world to himself (2 Cor. 5:19). But what exactly is that supposed to mean? The Greek word refers to an exchange of equivalent values, a settling of accounts, with the result being a reconciliation of parties. The term draws on an economic metaphor in which our alienation from ...
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