Geoffrey Holsclaw
In the last post I asked, “What is Penal Substitutionary Atonement?” I summarized Thomas Schreiner’s position in The Nature of the Atonement: Four Views as fairly as possible. Now I’m going to offer my own review of the biblical materials. Just How Biblical Is Penal Substitution? Advocates like Schreiner say their view is the most […]
“The theory of penal substitution is the heart and soul of an evangelical view of the atonement.” So says Thomas Schreiner in The Nature of the Atonement: Four Views (67). And historically, Schreiner is right. This is how I was raised as an evangelical fundamentalist in California, and many others all across the USA. […]
Focusing on blood is tough for us modern people—especially sacrificial blood. We don’t really have any category for that. And yet, if we are to celebrate our redemption in Christ as we did in the previous post on the Evangelical Preaching of the Cross: Redemption, then we must affirm that—in some way— our redemption is […]