The Meaning of Jesus' Death: Reviewing the New Testament’s Interpretations (Criminal Practice)

by Barry D. Smith

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Barry D. Smith studies the salvation-historical meaning of Jesus’ death (commonly known as the atonement) in the New Testament. Smith works his way through the four theories of the doctrine of the atonement that have emerged in the history of Christian theology: moral influence, governmental, satisfaction and Christus victor theories.

Smith works from the premise that, for a theory of the atonement to be successful, no biblical data may be omitted or distorted, and the generalized concepts used to comprehend the biblical data must be easily seen as implicit in the data. From this vantage point, Smith...Read more
  • ISBN10 0567670694
  • ISBN13 9780567670694
  • Publish Date 1 December 2016
  • Publish Status Active
  • Publish Country GB
  • Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
  • Imprint T.& T.Clark Ltd
  • Format Hardcover
  • Pages 256
  • Language English