Barefoot in the wilderness
in search of understanding

Christus Victor

Sven, at his Theology and Biblical Studies blog is starting what looks like being an excellent series on the history of atonement theory. He starts by showing that the early church, for the first thousand years of its existence, didn’t follow either of the current methods of understanding it – as either objective (changing God, as in penal substitution) or subjective (changing people). Rather, it used a ‘dramatic’ model that looked on Christ as winning a victory over the evil powers of the world.

pax et bonum

Article posted at 6:55pm on 30 November 2005
Category: Faith, Musing

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Thanks for the link John – and also for drawing to my attention that I forgot to add the tag for showing trackback to my new template :)

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10:31pm on 30 November 2005