RT Article
T1 Quid Pro Quo Satisfaction? An Analysis and Response to Garry Williams on Penal Substitutionary Atonement and Definite Atonement
JF The Evangelical quarterly
VO 89
IS 1
SP 51
OP 70
A1 Lynch, Michael
LA English
PB Brill
YR 2018
UL https://ixtheo.de/Record/1679285734
AB Advocates of definite atonement have often argued that penal substitutionary atonement entails the doctrine that Christ satisfied for the sins of the elect alone. Recently, Garry Williams published two essays in a book entitled From Heaven He Came and Sought Her defending the thesis that logical consistency demands that if one affirms penal substitution, classically understood, then one must affirm definite atonement. This paper responds to Williams's two essays and his main thesis by noting several historical considerations that significantly undermine Williams's exposition of what he deems to be the 'classic' doctrine of penal substitutionary atonement. Further it is shown that the various theological problems proffered by Reformed theologians against Williams's pecuniary version of penal substitution-such as R. L. Dabney's response to John Owen's double-payment argument-are inadequately addressed.
K1 Atonement
K1 DABNEY, R. L
K1 Owen, John
K1 Reformed Church doctrines
K1 Reformed Theology
K1 WILLIAMS, Garry
K1 limited atonement
K1 Penal Substitution
DO 10.1163/27725472-08901004