Suffering, Not Power: Atonement in the Middle Ages cs lewis the Son of the living

the Son of the living God" (Matt

and evangelical disputes on the relation of the Son to the Father

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Jonathan Leeman offers a way forward that we would do well to read and consider

It also features a bibliography to encourage further study in greater depth

Suffering, Not Power: Atonement in the Middle Ages cs lewis the Son of the livingCorrecting a popular view of the atonement Was Christs death a victory over death or a substitution for sin? Many today follow Gustav Aulns Christus Victor view, which portrays Christs death as primarily a victory over the powers of evil and death. According to Auln, this was the dominant view of the church until Anselm reframed atonement as satisfaction and the Reformers reframed it as penal substitution. In Suffering, Not Power, Benjamin Wheaton