What Has Happened to “Substitutionary Atonement?"

TylerR
Bible, Theology & Philosophy
Atonement
Substitutionary Atonement
Roger Olson

Roger Olson: Why is it that, during my lifetime, evangelical Christianity in America seems to have largely forgotten and possibly even discarded the theme of substitutionary atonement?

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TylerR
Mon, 10/23/17 9:39 am

I haven’t noticed this, but I’ve always attended fundamentalist, conservative churches. What have you guys seen?

Tyler is a pastor in Olympia, WA and works in State government.

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Bert Perry
Mon, 10/23/17 10:48 am

He’s getting at what the Babylon Bee mocks as “moral therapeutic deism”. On the fundamental side, you’ll see hints of it wherever people take the adage “I don’t drink and I don’t chew, and I don’t go with girls who do” seriously.

Aspiring to be a stick in the mud.