This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1920 edition. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER XIII THE DOCTRINE OF THE ATONEMENT IN MODERN TIMES We have now completed the main part of our task, the characterization of the great historical theories of the Atonement which have from time to time dominated the thought of the Church. Ransom theories. Bargain Jtheories, Satisfaction theories ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1920 edition. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER XIII THE DOCTRINE OF THE ATONEMENT IN MODERN TIMES We have now completed the main part of our task, the characterization of the great historical theories of the Atonement which have from time to time dominated the thought of the Church. Ransom theories. Bargain Jtheories, Satisfaction theories. PenaLthfiories, Rgcjoral theories, all have had their day, and all have added their contribution to the thought of subsequent ages. Only one of the old theories, the Moral theory, with its emphasis upon the manward aspect oT""Atonement, remained to receive a fuller and more adequate expression in recent years. It, too, had a contribution to bring, a contribution which the Church has been slow to accept. The receiving of that contribution is the special mark of the present day. No attempt will be made in this chapter to give a complete account of modern thought upon the doctrine of the Atonement. Writers upon the subject have never been so numerous, or so diverse in their conclusions. We do not as yet stand far enough away from them to estimate them at their true worth. One or two great treatises stand out as landmarks. Certain tendencies can be observed in different quarters. But the complete exposition of those tendencies must be left to the historian of the future. The historian of to-day can only set the present, as he sees it, against the background of the past, hoping thereby to read its meaning the more clearly, but conscious that the broad outlines of the picture may well be obscured by the very wealth of detail.1, " To one tendency of modern theology allusion has 'already been made, * the tendency in Roman, and in Uome Anglican, writers tnjrptaip fop Satiqfnrtinn thawy with a strong emphasis upon the conception of sacrifice as the...
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New. Grenstead comes to his task with the requisite humility necessary for such an endeavor, as well as the clear understanding that ''Those who would frame for themselves a theory of the Atonement have indeed the guidance of many doctors of the Church, but have no one clear ruling attested by Experience as true up to the limits of human truth. '' With that in mind, and firmly rooted in the belief that any theory of the Atonement must be revealed in life, he sets a steady hand to giving us a readable and consecutive rendering. Beginning with the Bible as basis for all doctrinal reconstruction, he proceeds through Christendom by touching on the ransom theories of the Patristic Age, the satisfaction theories of Anselm and the Scholastics, the development of the penal theory by the Reformers and the Modern return to the moral theory with its manward focus, rooted in the ''Person'' of God. Grensted surmises that the invisible chain linking these theological inconsistencies together is the mystical union of Christ with the believer--attested to in Johannine literature and residing in the incarnate love of the cross. (One note: you might find this reprint a bit on the messy side. The original used for this reprint edition had occasional underlining throughout, and so do the copies made from it. )
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This is a very good book for its purpose - interesting reading for those wanting to understand this history from New Testament times up until the early 1900s. To really study the doctrine of atonement per se, I did not find it especially helpful, compared to several other books. And it is not what I would call "can't put it down" reading, but it does conveniently trace in one volume the major developments in thinking of the early Christianity, then through the Roman and Greek churches, the middle ages, and the reformation period. If you have puzzled over atonement theories, and you would like to see where they came from, I recommend it.
