Christ Our Penal Substitute

by Robert Lewis Dabney

Publisher:

Presbyterian Committee of Publication

, 1898

Overview

If God is love, how can His Son have taken on our transgressions through penal substitution? The act of sacrificing one person for the sins of many has been related by some biblical scholars and students to pagan sacrificial practices and to the idea that God cannot both be love and be our penal substitution. Dabney argues that Christ’s atonement of our sins does not mirror pagan sacrificial practices, nor does it negate the fact that God is love. True to form, Dabney backs his writing with scriptural references and carefully constructed theological points.

Product Details

• Title: Christ Our Penal Substitute
• Author: Robert Lewis Dabney
• Publisher: Presbyterian Committee of Publication
• Print Publication Date: 1898
• Logos Release Date: 2012
• Language: English
• Resources: 1
• Format: Digital › Logos Research Edition
• Subjects: Jesus Christ › Priesthood; Atonement; Sacrifice › Biblical teaching
• Resource ID: LLS:CHRPENALSUB
• Resource Type: Monograph
• Metadata Last Updated: 2022-02-11T17:31:35Z

About Robert Lewis Dabney

Robert Lewis Dabney (March 5, 1820–January 3, 1898) was an American Christian theologian, a Southern Presbyterian pastor, and Confederate Army chaplain. He was also chief of staff and biographer to Stonewall Jackson. His biography of Jackson remains in print today. Dabney and James Henley Thornwell were two of Southern Presbyterianism’s most influential scholars. They were both Calvinist, Old School Presbyterians, and social conservatives.