Christus Victor: An Historical Study of the Three Main Types of the Idea of the Atonement

Softcover. Very good. Text is clean & tight & unmarked. Mild shelf wear with slight bumping/curling of cover corners. No spine creasing.

The author attacks the Christian doctrine of penal substitutionary atonement. He, like many today, claims that this doctrine did not exist in the early Church. Yet, Ignatius, the Epistle of Barnabas, the Epistle to Diognetus, Justin Martyr, Eusebius of Caesarea, Eusebius of Emesa, Hilary of Poitiers, Athanasius, Basil the Great, Gregory of Nazianzus, Ambrose of Milan, John Chrysostom, Augustine of Hippo, Cyril of Alexandria, Severus of Antioch, and Oecumenius all supported the theory.

This is an important work for Christians. With it, they may be more knowledgeably able to defend the Gospel of Jesus Christ from those who oppose it.