What Is the Atonement?

by Richard D. Phillips

Publisher:

P&R

, 2010

Overview

Five succinct sections establish the importance of Jesus’ atonement for faith, ministry, and life. This brief booklet is an ideal tool for small group discussions on an increasingly important subject.

Contents

Top Highlights

“In short, the biblical doctrine of the atonement lies at the center of all saving truth and holds together all essential Christian doctrines.” (Page 8)

“The purpose of the Lord’s Supper was to unite the disciples in faith in Christ’s death and its significance for them.” (Page 5)

“The difference is that God does not require man to make the sacrifice to propitiate his wrath against sin, nor could we do so. God’s love is shown in that he provided the sacrifice to propitiate his own wrath. In the very situation wherein we had no sacrifice worthy enough to avert his holy revulsion toward us as sinners, God gave his own Son to die for us.” (Page 13)

“This means that God set forward Jesus, his Son, to pacify his own wrath toward our sin.” (Page 11)

“that Christ died for our sins in accordance with the Scriptures” (Page 8)

Product Details

• Title: What Is the Atonement?
• Author: Richard D. Phillips
• Series: Basics of the Faith
• Publisher: P&R
• Print Publication Date: 2010
• Logos Release Date: 2014
• Language: English
• Resources: 1
• Format: Digital › Logos Research Edition
• Subject: Atonement
• ISBNs: 9781596381681, 159638168X
• Resource ID: LLS:WHATISATONEMENT
• Resource Type: Monograph
• Metadata Last Updated: 2022-09-30T03:43:55Z

About Richard D. Phillips

Richard Davis Phillips has been the Senior Minister of Second Presbyterian Church in Greenville, South Carolina (PCA) since July, 2007. He earned his bachelor’s degree at the University of Michigan, and a master of business administration degree at the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School of Business. Prior to entering the ministry, he commanded tank units as an officer in the U.S. Army and later served as an assistant professor of leadership at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point. He came to faith in Jesus Christ at the age of 30, and was soon was leading evangelistic Bible studies at the college where he was teaching. A few years later he received God’s call to enter the gospel ministry, and received a master of divinity degree from Westminster Theological Seminary in Philadelphia, PA.