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The doctrine of atonement : from Luther to Forde / Jack D. Kilcrease ; foreword by Roland Ziegler.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Eugene, Oregon : Wipf & Stock, [2018]Copyright date: ©2018Description: 1 online resourceContent type:
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  • 9781532639067
  • 1532639066
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: DOCTRINE OF ATONEMENT.DDC classification:
  • 232/.3 23
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  • BT265.3
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  • online - EBSCO
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Contents:
Intro; Title Page; Dedication; Foreword; Abbreviations; Chapter 1: Contexts and Methodology; Introduction; George Lindbeck's The Nature of Doctrine; Strengths and Weaknesses of Lindbeck's Model; Thomas Kuhn's Paradigms and Heiko Oberman's "Tradition I"; The Confessional Lutheran Paradigm; Chapter 2: Martin Luther's View of Atonement; Introduction; The History of Scholarship on Luther's View of Atonement; Previous Atonement Theologies; Luther's Early Psalms Commentaries (1513-1515); The Freedom of a Christian (1520); Luther's Small and Large Catechisms (1529)
Great Galatians Commentary (1531, 1535)Conclusion; Chapter 3: Atonement in the Lutheran Confessions and Scholasticism; Introduction; The Lutheran Confessors and Scholastics: Philipp Melanchthon; Martin Chemnitz and the Formula of Concord; The Lutheran Scholastics: Two Developments; Conclusion; Chapter 4: Modern Rethinking of the Lutheran Doctrine of Atonement; Introduction; Werner Elert; Evaluation; Gustaf Aulén; Evaluation; Gustaf Wingren; Evaluation; Chapter 5: Modern Rethinking of the Lutheran Doctrine of Atonement; Introduction; Wolfhart Pannenberg; Evaluation; Robert Jenson; Evaluation
Eberhard JüngelEvaluation; Conclusion; Chapter 6: Gerhard Forde's View of the Law; Introduction and Sources; Sources of Forde's Thought; Forde's General Concept of the Law; Forde on the Second Use of the Law; Forde on the First and Third Uses of the Law; Conclusion; Chapter 7: Gerhard Forde's View of Atonement and Justification; Introduction and Sources; Forde's Use of Scripture; Forde's Critique of Previous Theologies of Atonement: Penal Satisfaction; "Subjective" or "Moral Influence" Theories of Atonement; "Classical" or "Conquest" Theories of Atonement
Forde's Treatment of Luther's Theology of AtonementHuman Existence Under the Hidden God; The Actualization of Atonement and Justification: The Ministry, Death and Resurrection of Jesus; A Confessional Lutheran Assessment and Response; Conclusion; Bibliography
Summary: Post-Enlightenment theology has frequently rejected the historic Christian doctrine of substitutionary atonement. For theologians standing in the tradition of the Lutheran Confessions, rejection of substitutionary atonement is particularly problematic because it endangers the unconditional nature of the justification through faith. If one rejects vicarious satisfaction, then the only alternative is to make redemption dependent on what sinners do for themselves. In this study, Jack Kilcrease argues for substitutionary atonement within the perspective of what he calls the "Confessional Lutheran Paradigm." The author also critiques a wide variety of modern Lutheran theologians' understandings of atonement: Werner Elert, Gustaf Aulen, Gustaf Wingren, Robert Jenson, Eberhard Jungel, Wolfhart Pannenberg, and Gerhard Forde. As Kilcrease demonstrates, although these authors often give many fine theological insights, their distortion or misrepresentation of the doctrine of atonement carriers over to a problematic understanding of law, gospel, and justification through faith.
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Intro; Title Page; Dedication; Foreword; Abbreviations; Chapter 1: Contexts and Methodology; Introduction; George Lindbeck's The Nature of Doctrine; Strengths and Weaknesses of Lindbeck's Model; Thomas Kuhn's Paradigms and Heiko Oberman's "Tradition I"; The Confessional Lutheran Paradigm; Chapter 2: Martin Luther's View of Atonement; Introduction; The History of Scholarship on Luther's View of Atonement; Previous Atonement Theologies; Luther's Early Psalms Commentaries (1513-1515); The Freedom of a Christian (1520); Luther's Small and Large Catechisms (1529)

Great Galatians Commentary (1531, 1535)Conclusion; Chapter 3: Atonement in the Lutheran Confessions and Scholasticism; Introduction; The Lutheran Confessors and Scholastics: Philipp Melanchthon; Martin Chemnitz and the Formula of Concord; The Lutheran Scholastics: Two Developments; Conclusion; Chapter 4: Modern Rethinking of the Lutheran Doctrine of Atonement; Introduction; Werner Elert; Evaluation; Gustaf Aulén; Evaluation; Gustaf Wingren; Evaluation; Chapter 5: Modern Rethinking of the Lutheran Doctrine of Atonement; Introduction; Wolfhart Pannenberg; Evaluation; Robert Jenson; Evaluation

Eberhard JüngelEvaluation; Conclusion; Chapter 6: Gerhard Forde's View of the Law; Introduction and Sources; Sources of Forde's Thought; Forde's General Concept of the Law; Forde on the Second Use of the Law; Forde on the First and Third Uses of the Law; Conclusion; Chapter 7: Gerhard Forde's View of Atonement and Justification; Introduction and Sources; Forde's Use of Scripture; Forde's Critique of Previous Theologies of Atonement: Penal Satisfaction; "Subjective" or "Moral Influence" Theories of Atonement; "Classical" or "Conquest" Theories of Atonement

Forde's Treatment of Luther's Theology of AtonementHuman Existence Under the Hidden God; The Actualization of Atonement and Justification: The Ministry, Death and Resurrection of Jesus; A Confessional Lutheran Assessment and Response; Conclusion; Bibliography

Post-Enlightenment theology has frequently rejected the historic Christian doctrine of substitutionary atonement. For theologians standing in the tradition of the Lutheran Confessions, rejection of substitutionary atonement is particularly problematic because it endangers the unconditional nature of the justification through faith. If one rejects vicarious satisfaction, then the only alternative is to make redemption dependent on what sinners do for themselves. In this study, Jack Kilcrease argues for substitutionary atonement within the perspective of what he calls the "Confessional Lutheran Paradigm." The author also critiques a wide variety of modern Lutheran theologians' understandings of atonement: Werner Elert, Gustaf Aulen, Gustaf Wingren, Robert Jenson, Eberhard Jungel, Wolfhart Pannenberg, and Gerhard Forde. As Kilcrease demonstrates, although these authors often give many fine theological insights, their distortion or misrepresentation of the doctrine of atonement carriers over to a problematic understanding of law, gospel, and justification through faith.