#x98;The#x9C; meaning of Jesus' death reviewing the New Testament's interpretations

"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 advances a formulation of the atonement that is best supported by the biblical text itself. The conclusion Smith reaches is that the biblical data supports both the penal-substitutionary version of the satisfaction theory and the Christus victor theory of the atonement, each of which should be viewed as two parts of a more inclusive theory of atonement present in the New Testament."--Bloomsbury Publishing 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 advances a formulation of the atonement that is best supported by the biblical text itself. The conclusion Smith reaches is that the biblical data supports both the penal-substitutionary version of the satisfaction theory and the Christus victor theory of the atonement, each of which should be viewed as two parts of a more inclusive theory of atonement present in the New Testament Cover Half-title Title Copyright Contents Preface Abbreviations Introduction 1. Divine Modus Operandi 2. Prophecies of Messiah’s Rejection from Hebrew Bible Chapter 1. Servant of Yhwh, Priest according to the Order of Melchizedek and Second Human Being 1. Christ as Servant of Yhwh 2. Christ as High Priest and Sacrifice in Hebrews 3. Christ as Sacrifice 4. New Covenant and Forgiveness 5. Hebrews in the Interpretation of the Early Church 6. Christ as Second Human Being Chapter 2. Sacrificial Suffering and Death 1. Christ’s Death as Sacrifice 2. Christ as ìλαστńρıoν 3. Christ as Passover Offering Chapter 3. Being Justified and Righteousness of God 1. Being Justified by Faith in Christ 2. The Righteousness of God 3. Righteousness of God in Interpretation of Early Church 4. More on the Righteousness of God 5. Identification of Righteousness of God with the Righteousness of Christ 6. Righteousness of God as Formal Cause Chapter 4. Other Expressions of the Soteriological Benefit of Christ’s Death 1. Christ’s Death for Others 2. Suffered for Sins 3. Forgiveness Causally Tied to Christ 4. Christ’s Death as Redemptive 5. Reconciliation through Christ 6. Cursed is the One Hanging on a Tree 7. To Take Away Sins and ìλασμÓς for Sins 8. Condemned Sin in the Flesh 9. Being Made Sin 10. Christ as Bronze Snake 11. Cancelling Debt 12. Price Paid and Ransom Chapter 5. Christ’s Death as Means of Deliverance from Dominion of Satan 1. Protoevangelium 2. New Testament 3. Early Church Fathers Chapter 6. Testing of Theories of the Atonement 1. Theories of the Atonement 2. Objections to Penal-Substitutionary Version of Satisfaction Theory 3. Christus Victor Theory Selective Index of References Index of Modern Authors