RT Article
T1 Is the atonement necessary or fitting?
JF Religious studies
VO 57
IS 1
SP 148
OP 156
A1 Jeffrey, Anne
LA English
YR 2021
UL https://ixtheo.de/Record/1752231015
AB In her impressive Atonement, Eleonore Stump claims that her novel Marian theory of the atonement meets a desideratum for a successful theory that Aquinas's theory does not, namely, showing that Christ's passion and death are essential to the solution to the problem of human sin. Here I suggest reasons to side with Aquinas, who says that Christ's suffering and death are not necessary, but merely a fitting way of solving the problem. If the fittingness of Christ's passion and death is a good enough justification for it, we lose a motivation for adopting the Marian theory over the Thomistic one.
DO 10.1017/S0034412519000507