By Ben Pugh
Atonement Theories considerably updates prior histories of the doctrine, offering research of a few interesting and hugely major contemporary advancements. It additionally intriguingly highlights at a number of issues the place features of this principal message of Christianity could discover a connection inside of modern culture.
This ebook will empower the reader to speedy achieve a operating wisdom of present debates and the background at the back of them.
"Ben Pugh offers us a useful modern consultant to the diversity of money owed of the atonement which were complicated, and a really appropriate overview of them. The reader looking a map of up to date atonement theology will locate it right here; the reader pondering which modern bills are right, and that are in errors, could be challenged and knowledgeable by way of this ebook. the full is discovered yet readable, and a helpful addition to the literature at the atonement."
--Stephen R. Holmes, collage of St. Andrews, Scotland, UK
"This publication plugs a spot within the contemporary avalanche of writing concerning the atonement. In reviewing the origins of assorted theories of the atonement, together with very fresh ones, it highlights either the long-lasting price and provisionality of all such versions that grapple with the vital fact that 'Christ died for us.' it's a strangely informative and obtainable survey that's not afraid to question a few taken-for-granted assumptions. Its 'forays' into contemporary well known perspectives supply it additional price. it will turn out a really invaluable ebook to these involved in the atonement, even the place they might vary from a few of its evaluations."
--Derek Tidball, London university of Theology, Middlesex, UK
Ben Pugh is Lecturer in Theology at Cliff collage, united kingdom. he's the writer of The King of the Jews (2014).
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