The Doctrine of the Atonement, As Taught by the Apostles
Overview
Thanks to George Smeaton's faithful use of his exceptional gifts as a theologian and exegete, The Doctrine of the Atonement, As Taught by the Apostles is a brilliant study, serving as both a doctrinal discourse on the atonement, and a treatise on the key passages in the New Testament. One of the features of this insightful book, which serves to make it so relevant and important to us today, is the author's examination and explanation of every passage of the Bible dealing with the atonement. A by-product of addressing each and every verse pertinent to the subject is that the book is redundant in a most effective way—delivering the same messages repeatedly from slightly different perspectives, thus enhancing, embellishing, and deepening the reader's understanding of the gospel. Smeaton’s comprehensive biblical approach to the doctrine of the atonement makes an important book for understanding a scriptural approach to the various theories of atonement, as well as a clear-headed overview of the issues surrounding the current debate over the atonement.
Top Highlights
“The whole transaction shows two things—the love of God’s heart, and the rectitude of His government. All who refuse the atonement are, from the necessity of the case, left standing on their own footing as sinners, and out of divine favour; whereas all who receive the atonement are reconciled.” (Page 132)
“If we keep this in view, we can have no difficulty in perceiving how the death of Christ can be represented in either light, and how the one thought passes over into the other by an easy transition. His blood is thus a ransom, and the atonement accomplished by Him is a redemption.” (Pages 425–426)
“The last point to be mentioned is, that Christ was made the sin-offering, and condemned sin in the flesh, for this further object, that the righteousness of the law might be fulfilled in us.” (Pages 177–178)
“He denounces the Sophists of his day, who separated Christ from sins and sinners, and proposed Him to mankind merely as an example; ‘whereby,’ says he, ‘they make Him useless.’” (Page 527)
“to it.1 The two clauses will thus set forth respectively Paul’s estimate of the world, and the world’s estimate of him.” (Page 265)
Smeaton was an outstanding scholar with a brilliant mind and a deep love for Christ. . . .
—Sinclair Ferguson in The Great Exchange
A valuable contribution to the literature of the doctrine of the atonement.
—Bibliotheca Sacra
- Title: The Doctrine of the Atonement, As Taught by the Apostles
- Author: George Smeaton
- Publisher: Logos Research Systems, Inc.
- Publication Date: 2009
- Pages: 502
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