Defending Substitution

Defending SubstitutionIn recent decades, the church and academy have witnessed intense debates concerning the concept of penal substitution to describe Christ's atoning sacrifice. Some claim it promotes violence, glorifies suffering and death, and amounts to divine child abuse. Others argue it plays a pivotal role in classical Christian doctrine. Here world renowned New Testament scholar Simon Gathercole offers an exegetical and historical defense of the traditional

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Edited by Hans Boersma and Matthew Levering

It considers how the message of the prophets would have been heard in their respective historical communities and considers the prophets' continuing importance for contemporary study

Mathis invites youth pastors

as it is based on the metaphor of free gift

making these practices carriers of doctrine

Jesus is not only the quintessential model of faithfulness in a fallen world

The book also includes a foreword by Torrey Robinson

this book by a seasoned scholar offers an engaging

appendixes providing more detailed explanations

Dorothy Day on goodness

If theology is the ministry of the Word to the world