A Defence of the Catholic Faith concerning the Satisfaction of Christ, against Faustus Socinus
Overview
Prefixed to Hugo Grotius’s study of the atonement is Frank Foster’s essay on the history of the Grotian theory and the significant influence it had on atonement theology. “Its orthodox affinities are exhibited by its survival and its final adoption in an orthodox Calvinistic system, and its firm establishment there, though not conclusive proof, is at least such evidence as history can give that it does afford, in spite of frequent denials of the critics, the true mean between the old Calvinistic and the Socinian theories, rejecting the errors of both and combining their truths in a consistent form.”
Grotius begins his study of the atonement by tracing the history of the doctrine and examining various controversies and theories around it. He then explores how God should be considered, whether it was unjust for Christ to be punished for our sins, whether God intended to punish Christ and the nature of satisfaction, the propitiation and reconciliation made by the death of Christ, and more.
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- Includes an introductory essay on the influence of the Grotian view of the Atonement
- Discusses the issue of God’s justice in relationship to Jesus’ suffering
- Presents one of the most influential views of the Atonement in church history
Top Highlights
“A man can forgive a debt without payment: so can God.2” (Page xv)
“now taught, and now denied, the objective necessity of an atonement” (Page xiii)
“ but satisfaction may repair the honor of God and still admit of the salvation of man” (Page xii)
“He does not begin with the justice of God ‘demanding punishment” (Page xiv)
“What adjustment shall be made in the church doctrine to remove from it the error which Socinus refutes?” (Page xvi)
- Title: A Defence of the Catholic Faith concerning the Satisfaction of Christ, against Faustus Socinus
- Author: Hugo Grotius
- Publisher: W. F. Draper
- Print Publication Date: 1889
- Logos Release Date: 2013
- Pages: 371
- Era: era:reformation
- Language: English
- Resources: 1
- Format: Digital › Logos Research Edition
- Subjects: Socinus, Faustus, 1539-1604 › De Jesu Christo Servatore; Atonement › Early works to 1800; Atonement › History
- Resource ID: LLS:ATONEGROTIUS
- Resource Type: Monograph
- Metadata Last Updated: 2022-02-11T17:06:34Z