Atonement: The Person and Work of Christ. By Thomas F. Torrance. Edited by Robert T. Walker
This is a splendid volume. What makes it splendid is its focus on soteriology from the side of God and the side of humanity. Accordingly, there is no sense in which the work of Christ—the atonement that is his life, passion, death, resurrection, ascension, and heavenly session—takes place outside of...
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| Format: | Electronic Review |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford University Press
2010
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The journal of theological studies
Year: 2010, Volume: 61, Issue: 2, Pages: 876-879 |
| Review of: | Atonement (Milton Keynes : Paternoster, 2009) (Holmes, Christopher R. J.)
Atonement (Milton Keynes : Paternoster, 2009) (Holmes, Christopher R. J.) |
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| Summary: | This is a splendid volume. What makes it splendid is its focus on soteriology from the side of God and the side of humanity. Accordingly, there is no sense in which the work of Christ—the atonement that is his life, passion, death, resurrection, ascension, and heavenly session—takes place outside of or is alien to the creature. Rather, in Torrance’s inimitable way, he emphasizes the extent to which Christ’s saving work is done into the creature. ‘By living in utter holiness as Son on earth he appropriated for and into our human nature the eternal life of God’ (p. 217). Perhaps the most significant upshot of all of this is the rich understanding it generates of the ‘in Christ’ motif. |
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| ISSN: | 1477-4607 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: The journal of theological studies
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1093/jts/flq128 |