Sentences with phrase «anselmian doctrine of atonement»

Since Jesus atoned for our sins by carrying love for enemy to the ultimate degree, a refusal to follow his example at this point not only involves a denial of scriptural authority; it also constitutes a questionable doctrine of the atonement.

This became known as the substitutionary doctrine of atonement.

-- but there is no doctrine of the Atonement, as yet.

The orthodox substitutionary doctrine of the atonement has a little trouble dealing with the fact that Jesus must bear, in our stead, the punishment due our sin.

In contrast the Pope elaborates in evangelical terms the doctrine of atonement, revealing at once God's serious appraisal of sin and the depths of his mercy.

Of course this is not a doctrine of the Atonement.

We simply do not know what the doctrines of atonement, incarnation and redemption mean until we understand what they mean for persons shaped by this historical milieu.

There is no escaping the extreme difficulty that confronts any attempt to frame a doctrine of the Atonement as a result of the growing recognition of the extent to which motives of theological and apologetic construction determine the Gospels as we have them.

It was not without reason that 19th - century liberal theologians revolted en mass against the orthodox Anselmian doctrine of atonement that taught that the only ultimately compelling reason for Christ's coming was that he might suffer his substitutionary, sacrificial, expiating, even propitiating death.

Augustine gives us no formal doctrine of atonement.

The technical term is the doctrine of the Atonement, although this has never been officially defined in the same way as the doctrines of the Trinity and the Incarnation.

The way in which the meaning of death is woven into the history of sin and reconciliation creates especially difficult problems in the doctrine of atonement.

All these metaphors have been worked into theories of the atonement in Christian history; but it is remarkable that no single doctrine of atonement has ever become the accepted theory to the exclusion of the others.

We speak of «the doctrine of the atonement,» «the doctrine of Christ,» or «the doctrine of God,» and what we have in mind is the collective testimony from the various biblical authors as to what should be believed about the atonement, about Christ, and about God.

What is the relationship between a theologian's position on corporal punishment and a theologian's doctrine of the atonement?

We have seen how the traditional doctrines of atonement tend to resist this conclusion.

There is, however, a remarkable fact which appears when we look at the history of the doctrine of atonement.

The doctrine of the Church as the community which bears the meaning of reconciliation in history is not then an addendum to the doctrine of atonement.

The traditional doctrines of atonement understand Jesus» suffering as penal or sacrificial.

For it is not true, as a superficial view assumes, that the doctrine of the atonement is the qualitative difference between paganism and Christianity.

For the paradox results from the doctrine of the atonement.

The case for Paul's teaching the doctrine of the atonement actually rests, not on this whole passage, but on one part of one verse, Romans 3:25.

The whole point of the Christian doctrine of Atonement is that God can not be merciful without fulfilling within himself, and on man's behalf, the requirements of divine justice.

Neither can one short book convey the complexity of the doctrine of atonement or the centuries of debate about sin and grace.

He makes the conference realize the great harm done by unethical representations of the doctrine of the Atonement, and how pathetically missionaries are handicapped who do not appreciate the inner life of the people whose religion they wish to supplant.

Niebuhr maintained that the Christian doctrine of the Atonement is the final key to this interpretation.

The central truth embodied in the doctrine of the Atonement is that the justice and mercy of God are one.

This doctrine, his chief contribution to theology, is determinative for his ethics, his view of history, his Christology, his doctrine of the atonement, and his eschatology.

He had long stumbled at the doctrine of Atonement.

For myself, I did not want an historical survey of the doctrine of the atonement, but an explanation and defense of the Christus Victor view.

By appearances, the book is little more than a long, historical survey of the doctrine of the atonement, showing how various views of the atonement have been developed over time and in response to various events within the church and the surrounding culture.

In other words, the teaching that the death of Christ was (a) for sin and (b) in accordance with the scriptures was derived by both Mark and Paul from the primitive church; the doctrine of the Atonement is not Paul's unique and distinctive contribution to Christian thought, for it is really pre-Pauline; further, it is not at all the central, cardinal doctrine in «Paulinism,» but a subsidiary one; (Indeed, it is a component one — it forms part of the doctrine of the new creation in Christ) finally, the conception of the way in which Christ's death becomes effective, as Paul conceived it, is peculiar to Paul and finds no trace in Mark or indeed elsewhere in the New Testament (Save in passages demonstrable dependent on Paul)-- Paul thinks of it as a conquest of the demonic powers in the very hour of their greatest aggression and apparent triumph.

The traditional doctrines of atonement have all been founded upon something less than a fully personal analysis of the meaning of forgiveness.

It is a judgment upon the Church and its ministry if, with our belief in God's grace, we repeat the great symbols and doctrines of atonement but actually practice less of a costing identification with the sufferings of men and women than do those who counsel with them under secular auspices.

Christian affirmation about the work of Christ in transforming men is interpreted in the doctrines of atonement.

In the two chapters on soteriology we find a number of them, for example, a denial of the redemptive dimension of the Incarnation, a purely forensic understanding of the doctrine of justification, and a narrow focus on penal substitution in the doctrine of atonement.

Somehow it was related to the ransoming of «the many» (Mark 3:22)-- that is as far as Mark goes toward a doctrine of atonement.

Third, CAR undercuts the doctrine of the atonement by denying that God commanded animal sacrifices or that Christ was the lamb of God that would take away the sin of the world (John 1:29).

Rather, he said, «in every case it was an ethical revulsion from doctrines of the atonement, everlasting damnation, original sin, and an omnipotent God who permits evil.»

I must not undertake to give you a course in theology, but just to relieve your mind of any suspicion that there is one orthodox doctrine of the atonement, which a Christian is expected to accept, let me give you a sample or two.

Not exact matches

And in the process there was an erosion of Augustinianism that emphasized the soteriological significance either of human will in a form of synergism or of human cooperation with the divine and a growing attack on such classic Protestant doctrines as limited atonement and predestination.

If we think of Jesus» work apart from traditional atonement theory, what happens to the doctrine of Jesus» person?»

My general aversion to the doctrine of predestination / limited atonement has unfortunately ruled out some good Presbyterian churches, and our shared skepticism regarding the prosperity gospel / signs and wonders have kept most Pentecostal churches off the list.

Among evangelicals, so much emphasis has been placed on the doctrine of substiutionary atonement that the focus has shifted away from FOLLOWING the life and teachings of Jesus (in order to be saved from sin) to simply BELIEVING in the death and resurrection of Jesus (in order to be saved from judgment).

Yorck gives by way of illustration a re-interpretation of the doctrines of original sin and the atonement.

Designed to test Warren's doctrine on everything from the sovereignty of God, to unconditional election, to substitutionary atonement, to homosexuality, the interview was seen by Piper as proof that Rick Warren was indeed a «doctrinally sound» evangelist.

Among important recent studies of the atonement are Gustaf Aulen, Christus Victor (London: S.P.C.K., 1931); William J. Wolf, No Cross, No Crown (New York: Doubleday, 1957); H. E. W. Turner, The Patristic Doctrine of Redemption (London: A. R. Mowbray, 1952).

When Bell undertook a speaking tour titled The Gods Aren't Angry, he was widely seen as abandoning the doctrine of penal substitutionary atonement.

The response was a violent attack on Bushnell and though his health was broken he applied his theories to the doctrine of the Trinity and to the atonement on the cross.

These doctrines were justification by faith in Christ; sanctification / Spirit - baptism as a subsequent work of grace; divine healing as part of Christ's atonement; and the literal premillennial return of Christ at the end of the church era.