RT Article
T1 Inventing atonement: Faustus Socinus, John Owen, and the birth of a doctrine
JF Scottish journal of theology
VO 78
IS 4
SP 330
OP 344
A1 Kerr, Jason A.
LA English
YR 2025
UL https://ixtheo.de/Record/1948077752
AB This article considers John Owen's introduction of the word "atonement" as a term of art for Christ's satisfaction in response to Socinian attacks on that doctrine. Owen's innovation complicates the use of atonement theories in the dogmatic history of atonement by F. C. Baur and his successors, because Owen's account of Christ's work extends beyond satisfaction, and he uses "atonement" to emphasise not the mechanism of that work but its relational necessity. Even as the framework of atonement theories obscures these aspects of Owen's work, his novel use of "atonement" lays the foundation for satisfaction to become an atonement theory in Baur's sense.
K1 Ferdinand Christian Baur
K1 John Owen
K1 Socinianism
K1 Atonement
K1 dogmatic history
DO 10.1017/S0036930625101361