RT Article
T1 Idem Fecit: Irenical Animadversions on the Boundaries of the Classical Doctrine of Penal Substitutionary Atonement
JF The Evangelical quarterly
VO 90
IS 1
SP 3
OP 23
A1 Williams, Garry J.
LA English
YR 2019
UL https://ixtheo.de/Record/1679290622
AB Garry Williams responds to Michael Lynch's critique of his chapters in From Heaven He Came and Sought Her. The response focuses on Lynch's claim that Williams unduly narrows the definition of classical penal substitutionary atonement to bounds set by John Owen. It shows that Williams did not include in his definition Owen's account of Christ bearing the same [idem) as sinners deserved, and thus did not exclude major Reformed authors. Rather, Williams argued that the classical doctrine identifies Christ's sufferings with the actual sins of real persons, a criterion fulfilled by the authors. The idem question is seen to be more subtle than Lynch allows. The idea of a non-quantifiable specificity in the sufferings of Christ is restated. Significant findings emerge for the importance of imputation and transfer to penal substitutionary atonement, and for articulating the different senses in which Christ bore (or did not) the idem as sinners deserved.
K1 ATONEMENT (Christianity)
K1 DABNEY, Robert Lewis, 1820-1898
K1 DOCTRINAL theology
K1 Jesus Christ
K1 John Owen
K1 Owen, John, 1616-1683
K1 Robert Dabney
K1 Imputation
K1 limited atonement
K1 penal substitutionary atonement
DO 10.1163/27725472-09001001