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Fellow Limited Atonement Advocate
Today I happened to spot the blog of a fellow advocate of Limited Atonement. Mr. Josh Walker of the Bring the Books blog has a number of interesting posts on the Atonement. 1. Demonstrates one (of several) problems with the theory that Calvin held universal atonement. 2. Demonstrates that Charles Hodge held to Limited Atonement.…
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A.A. Hodge on the Atonement
In A.A. Hodge’s “Outlines of Theology,” there is a chapter (Chapter XXV) on the Atonement (pp. 401-25 in the 1999 Banner of Truth Printing). The chapter is well organized and provides a good introduction to the subject. It seems to be designed to serve as a seminary textbook, and while it varies somewhat from the…
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Bavinck on Limited Atonement
Volume 3 of Herman Bavinck’s “Reformed Dogmatics” addresses the issue of Limited Atonement. Bavinck deals with the matter at #404-08 (pp. 455-75 in the Baker Academic 2008 printing). Bavinck approaches the matter in a way that I found very helpful in light of certain Amyraldian commentators of late, in that he discusses many of the…
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What John Murray and I believe About the Atonement
Since a few folks have apparently been trying to present John Murray as though he were not a consistent, five-point Calvinist, I thought it would be valuable to provide a quotation from Prof. Murray, on the subject: The criticism that the doctrine of limited atonement prevents the free offer of the gospel rests upon a…
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Clarifying Atonement Analogy
I had written: To go back to the ransom analogy, if the cost to ransom any and all captives is $1 Million, then a payment of $1 Million is sufficient for all, even if it is not intended or used to free all the captives. As I feared, this appears to have led to some…
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Shedd – On the Atonement
Shedd writes: Before leaving the subject of vicarious atonement, it is in place here to notice its relation to the soul of man. For, while Christ’s atonement has primarily this objective relation to the Divine nature, it has also a secondary subjective relation to the nature of the guilty creature for whom it is made.…
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Particular Redemption – Quotation from Reymond’s Systematic Theology
Monergism.com has provided a lengthy excerpt from Robert Reymond’s A New Systematic Theology of the Christian Faith, 2nd ed. on the subject of Ten Lines of Evidence for Particular Redemption (link to excerpt). Reymond’s Ten Lines: 1) The Particularistic Vocabulary of Scripture2) God’s Redemptive Love Not Inclusive of Fallen Angels3) The Irreversible Condition of Lost…
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Further Response to FreeGrace – Exegesis Defended Against Assertion
FreeGrace has provided some further comments, which I will respond to below. FreeGrace: “Your comment that the “all” fits perfectly with “all kinds” surprises me. I thought you had more academic training than to think that. If you want the “all” to mean only “all kinds of”, then Paul isn’t really saying that everyone in…
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Response to FreeGrace – Unlimited Atonement in Romans?
A Non-Calvinist who uses the screen name FreeGrace recently resent me a question he had sent a while back, and which I had hoped to answer more quickly. FreeGrace: “I recently discovered a phrase by Paul that I believe is clearly indicative of unlimited atonement, though not specifically mentioning it. It is Rom 3:32-25.” Here…
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Grinding the Grain: Responding to the Substance of Trey Austin’s Arguments
Having disposed of the chaff in an earlier post (link), we may now turn to the grain portion of Trey’s recent post responding to questions I had posed as to the view of my theological opponents (or are they?) regarding the atonement. I was a little disappointed to see that Trey decided to answer only…