Take a close look into the writings of the man who brought Schleiermacher’s Protestant liberalism to North America. For the first time, Horace Bushnell’s works appear in one 20 volume collection. In addition to the works authored by Bushnell, this collection also includes an early biography with Bushnell’s collected letters as well as volumes on Bushnell’s work as a preacher and educator written by his wife, Mary Bushnell Cheney, and by contemporaries Theodore T. Munger and Henry C. Trumbull. With this comprehensive collection, you’ll study firsthand the work and personal writings of this significant figure in American Protestantism who influenced the direction of twentieth century Protestant theology.
In addition to his rejection of the standard Calvinism of his time, Bushnell’s views on the trinity and atonement are particularly important for the development of Protestant liberal theology in America. He challenged the classic articulation of the Trinity and argued that God did not necessarily exist in three distinct persons from all eternity. In his two-volume work The Vicarious Sacrifice, Bushnell challenged the necessity of a penal, substitutionary atonement and instead argued that Christ’s earthly ministry and crucifixion merely provided an example of self-sacrificial love, a form of the moral influence theory of the atonement.
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