Sentences with phrase «christian doctrine of atonement»

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

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.

Not exact matches

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.

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.

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

Wills is even better on the Atonement, a doctrine now widely rejected by liberal Christians because of its alleged reliance on an image of God as patriarchal child - abuser.

And since Islam also presents no counterpart to the Christian doctrine of original sin, it can only find all the more alien the orthodox Christian kerygma that God assumed human form to die willingly an excruciating death in atonement for the sin that has affected all humanity since the fall in the Garden of Eden.

If one asserts a doctrine of limited atonement, according to which Christ died only for a segment and not even all of the Christian church, with the rest of humanity being condemned to hell, one is deservedly accused of Christian bigotry.

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.