The Atonement and the Modern Mind
Overview
Forgiveness, pardon, contrition—these ideas fit snugly in with contemporary Christian understanding. But where does atonement fit in? In this volume, James Denney seeks to enlighten readers on contemporary misconceptions on the atonement of Christ—specifically the penal nature of his atonement—and on what that has meant for Christianity as a “historical religion.”
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- Enlightens readers on misconceptions on the atonment of Christ
- Details the penal nature of Christ’s atonement
- Explore’s what atonement means for Christianity as a “historical religion”
Top Highlights
“The Atonement is a reality of such a sort that it can make no compromise. The man who fights it knows that he is fighting for his life, and puts all his strength into the battle. To surrender is literally to give up himself, to cease to be the man he is, and to become another man. For the modern mind, therefore, as for the ancient, the attraction and the repulsion of Christianity are concentrated at the same point; the cross of Christ is man’s only glory, or it is his final stumbling-block.” (Page 3)
“Similarly it may be quite true both that Christ was crucified and slain by wicked men, and that He died for our sins.” (Page 36)
“the forgiveness of sins is for the Christian mediated through the death of Christ” (Page 11)
“It was a distinct stage in his religious progress when he realised that true justification sanctifies, and that the soul can and ought to abandon itself spontaneously and joyfully to do the good that it delights in. The modern mind assumes what Dr. Chalmers painfully discovered. An atonement that does not regenerate, it truly holds, is not an atonement in which men can be asked to believe. Such then, in its prejudices good and bad, is the mind to which the great truth of the Christian religion has to be presented.” (Pages 40–41)
“The love of God to the sinful was apprehended in Christ Himself, and not in what He said as something apart from Himself; on the contrary, it was in the identity of the speaker and the word that the power of the word lay; God’s love evinced itself to men as a reality in Him, in His presence in the world, and in His attitude to its sin; it so evinced itself, finally and supremely, in His death.” (Page 16)
- Title: The Atonement and the Modern Mind
- Author: James Denney
- Publisher: Hodder and Stoughton
- Print Publication Date: 1903
- Logos Release Date: 2013
- Pages: 117
- Language: English
- Resources: 1
- Format: Digital › Logos Research Edition
- Subject: Atonement
- Resource ID: LLS:ATNMODMIND
- Resource Type: Monograph
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