Jonathan Edwards, Anselmic Satisfaction and God's Moral Government
Jonathan Edwards' doctrine of atonement has recently become a source of interest amongst some contemporary systematic theologians. This article sets out to redress two longstanding and historically strident claims regarding Edwards' doctrine of the nature of atonement: first, that Edwards...
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Format: | Electronic Article |
Language: | English |
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Wiley-Blackwell
[2015]
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International journal of systematic theology
Year: 2015, Volume: 17, Issue: 1, Pages: 46-67 |
IxTheo Classification: | KAH Church history 1648-1913; modern history KDD Protestant Church NBC Doctrine of God NBM Doctrine of Justification |
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Summary: | Jonathan Edwards' doctrine of atonement has recently become a source of interest amongst some contemporary systematic theologians. This article sets out to redress two longstanding and historically strident claims regarding Edwards' doctrine of the nature of atonement: first, that Edwards espoused an Anselmic satisfaction theory of atonement; second, that Edwards also laid the theological foundation for the moral government theory of atonement, popularized in nineteenth-century America by those of his intellectual tradition. In this article, I lay out the conceptual core of both Anselm's satisfaction theory and the moral government theory of atonement. I argue that the claims noted above lack the explanatory resources needed to account accurately for Edwards' understanding of the nature of the atonement. |
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ISSN: | 1468-2400 |
Contains: | Enthalten in: International journal of systematic theology
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Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1111/ijst.12081 |