PFOT: Atonement in History

Two great posts

• The Church Fathers on the Atonement.
• The Atonement again.

These should be required reading for anyone tempted to take at face value the claims in Pierced for our Transgressions (PFOT) that the Church Fathers taught Penal Substitution.

Note that I could not have written either of these being woefully ignorant of the writings of the Church Fathers. So many thanks to Andrew.

Comments

[Peter Kirk]

Actually these are only two of at least four recent great posts by this same Andrew relevant to the atonement debate. See also Baking the Atonement for a somewhat light-hearted (see my comment if you are tempted to take this too seriously) comment on the variety of views of the Atonement; and his latest post "Sins" != "Guilt" of sins.