Suffering, not Power: Atonement in the Middle Ages
Correcting a popular view of the atonement.
Was Christâs death a victory over death or a substitution for sin? Many today follow Gustav AulĂ©nâs Christus Victor view, which portrays Christâs death as primarily a victory over the powers of evil and death. According to AulĂ©n, this was the dominant view of the church until Anselm reframed atonement as satisfaction and the Reformers reframed it as penal substitution.
In Suffering, Not Power, Benjamin Wheaton challenges this common narrative. Sacrificial and substitutionary language was common well before Anselmâs Cur Deus Homo. Wheaton displays this through a careful analysis of three medieval figures whose writings on the atonement are commonly overlooked: Caesarius of Arles, Haimo of Auxerre, and Dante Alighieri. These individuals come from different times and contexts and wrote in different genres, but each spoke of Christâs death as a sacrifice of expiation and propitiation made by God to God.
Let history speak for itself, read the evidence, and reconsider the churchâs belief in Christâs substitutionary death for sinners.
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Suffering, not Power: Atonement in the Middle Ages
Suffering, not Power: Atonement in the Middle Ages
Correcting a popular view of the atonement.
Was Christâs death a victory over death or a substitution for sin? Many today follow Gustav AulĂ©nâs Christus Victor view, which portrays Christâs death as primarily a victory over the powers of evil and death. According to AulĂ©n, this was the dominant view of the church until Anselm reframed atonement as satisfaction and the Reformers reframed it as penal substitution.
In Suffering, Not Power, Benjamin Wheaton challenges this common narrative. Sacrificial and substitutionary language was common well before Anselmâs Cur Deus Homo. Wheaton displays this through a careful analysis of three medieval figures whose writings on the atonement are commonly overlooked: Caesarius of Arles, Haimo of Auxerre, and Dante Alighieri. These individuals come from different times and contexts and wrote in different genres, but each spoke of Christâs death as a sacrifice of expiation and propitiation made by God to God.
Let history speak for itself, read the evidence, and reconsider the churchâs belief in Christâs substitutionary death for sinners.
Paperback â : â 232 pages
Item Weight â : â 9.6 ounces
Dimensions â : â 5.5 x 0.6 x 8.5 inches
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Correcting a popular view of the atonement.
Was Christâs death a victory over death or a substitution for sin? Many today follow Gustav AulĂ©nâs Christus Victor view, which portrays Christâs death as primarily a victory over the powers of evil and death. According to AulĂ©n, this was the dominant view of the church until Anselm reframed atonement as satisfaction and the Reformers reframed it as penal substitution.
In Suffering, Not Power, Benjamin Wheaton challenges this common narrative. Sacrificial and substitutionary language was common well before Anselmâs Cur Deus Homo. Wheaton displays this through a careful analysis of three medieval figures whose writings on the atonement are commonly overlooked: Caesarius of Arles, Haimo of Auxerre, and Dante Alighieri. These individuals come from different times and contexts and wrote in different genres, but each spoke of Christâs death as a sacrifice of expiation and propitiation made by God to God.
Let history speak for itself, read the evidence, and reconsider the churchâs belief in Christâs substitutionary death for sinners.
Paperback â : â 232 pages
Item Weight â : â 9.6 ounces
Dimensions â : â 5.5 x 0.6 x 8.5 inches
