The meaning of Jesus' death : reviewing the New Testament's interpretations

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Label

The meaning of Jesus' death : reviewing the New Testament's interpretations

Title remainder

reviewing the New Testament's interpretations

Statement of responsibility

Barry D. Smith

Creator

• Smith, Barry D

Author

• Smith, Barry D

Subject

• Atonement -- History of doctrines
• Atonement -- History of doctrines
• Bible, New Testament
• Bible, New Testament -- Criticism, interpretation, etc
• Bible, New Testament -- Theology
• Biblical exegesis & hermeneutics
• Biblical studies & exegesis
• Criticism, interpretation, etc
• Crucifixion -- Biblical teaching
• Crucifixion -- History of doctrines
• Electronic books
• Jesus Christ
• Jesus Christ -- Crucifixion | Biblical teaching
• Jesus Christ -- Crucifixion | History of doctrines
• RELIGION -- Christian Theology | Systematic
• RELIGION -- Christianity | General
• Theology
• Atonement -- Biblical teaching
• Atonement -- Biblical teaching

Genre

• Electronic books
• Criticism, interpretation, etc

Language

eng

Summary

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

Member of

• T & T Clark biblical studies

Cataloging source

N$T

Dewey number

230.0415

Index

no index present

LC call number

BS2361.3

LC item number

.S65 2017eb

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

dictionaries

Series statement

T & T Clark biblical studies