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Concordia Theological Monthly

1961

Atonement

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Vicarious Satisfaction: A Study In Ecclesiastical Terminology, Henry W. Reimann Feb 1961

Vicarious Satisfaction: A Study In Ecclesiastical Terminology, Henry W. Reimann

Concordia Theological Monthly

There is no dispute in modern theology on the importance of the work of Christ. Biblical, Reformation, and confessional studies have combined to recall theology to the importance of Christology and soteriology. Even the recent emphases on ecclesiology and eschatology, stemming from our ecumenical and apocalyptic times, have not been unproductive of more vital soteriological emphases.


The Vicarious Atonement In John Quenstedt, Robert D. Preus Feb 1961

The Vicarious Atonement In John Quenstedt, Robert D. Preus

Concordia Theological Monthly

The last decades have witnessed some significant and provocative studies in the doctrine of the Atonement. Two of these studies particularly have stimulated interest by the way in which they have broken with the old Lutheran and Protestant treatment of the doctrine while attempting at the same time to be entirely Biblical in the approach and presentation of the doctrine. On the one hand, Gustaf Aulen classifies the post-Reformation teaching as only a slight and more logical modification of the doctrine of Anselm, a teaching dominated by the idea of satisfaction and the legal motif. In contrast to this, Aulen …