- 160 pages
- Wipf and Stock (2017)
- ISBN-10: 1532609973
- ISBN-13: 978-1532609978
The atonement is one of the topics that has been part of intense debates in recent years, some advocating other theories that are less confrontational to the human being. Jonathan Edwards, was one of the great theologians who upheld the penal substitute atonement, in fact, this matter was key to a correct interpretation of the good news of Jesus.
In this short and substantial book, Brandon James Crawford makes a very appropriate and interesting presentation on what Edwards was expounding on penal substitute atonement, in consideration of what some of the Edwardeans were proposing about atonement, known as government theory. Why did those close to Edwards propose the government theory? Why did they leave the reformed classical orthodoxy? And what did Edwards write about it?
Before considering these and other matters, the author gives us a historical overview of the position on the atonement of the Church fathers, the medieval church, the Reformation and the Puritans. A significant journey to understand the development of this doctrine.
Finally, we are given a panoramic view of Edwards' theology and his position on the atonement.
It is a book that not only brings us to know Jonathan Edwards a little more, but we also know more about the doctrine of the atonement.
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