Deus Misereatur

Exploring Christology and Atonement: Conversations with John McLeod Campbell, H. R. Mackintosh and T. F. Torrance Andrew Purves IVP Academic PO Box 1400 Downers Grove, IL 60515 www.ivpress.com ISBN: 978-0-8308-4077-9; $30.00; August 2015 Reviewed by Rev. Dr. Michael Philliber for Deus Misereatur Atonement in Christian thinking is a subject with a protracted and polychromatic history. From the earliest days to the present there have been proponents of recapitulation in Christ, bait and switch , ransom , moral example , Christus Victor , as well as propitiation and penal substitution , just to name a few. The one theme each has in common is that they are all related to the incarnation. On occasion something just a bit different or unique surfaces and catches one’s eye. Andrew Purves, Jean and Nancy Davis Professor of Historical Theology at Pittsburgh Theological Seminary in Pennsylvania, recounts and refines the atonement thread of three Scottish theologians in hi...

Sunday Morning: As Solomon once declared, there is no God like you in heaven above, or on earth below. You keep covenant with your people and show steadfast love to your servants who strive to walk before you with all their heart (1 Kings 8.23). Because of your great love with which you have loved us, we long to put away the old methods of being human which grow corrupt thru deceitful lusts, to be renewed in the spirit of our minds, and to walk fully in the new humanity, created in true righteousness and holiness (Ephesians 4.22-23). Help us, O our Father!  For your Church world over, for The National Baptist Conventions; The Evangelical Lutheran Church in America; The National Primitive Baptist Convention; The Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod; The Cumberland Presbyterian Church; and the Free Methodist Church; Sustain our brotherhood in the world; fortifying those who face persecution; supply the needs of those who are lacking; protect those who are facing dangerou...