RT Review
T1 Atonement: The Person and Work of Christ. By Thomas F. Torrance. Edited by Robert T. Walker
JF The journal of theological studies
VO 61
IS 2
SP 876
OP 879
A1 Holmes, Christopher R. J. 1974-
LA English
PB Oxford University Press
YR 2010
UL https://www.ixtheo.de/Record/1783727993
AB 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.
K1 Rezension
DO 10.1093/jts/flq128