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Christus Victor: An Historical Study of the Three Main Types of the Idea of Atonement
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The Swedish Lutheran theologian, Gustav Aulén, published a seminal work on the types of atonement theory in 1930 (Christus Victor). Though time and critical studies have suggested many subtler treatments of the question, no one has really improved on his insight. Especially valuable was his description of the “Classic View” of the atonement. This i
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Most merciful God, we confess that we have sinned against you in thought, word, and deed, by what we have done, and by what we have left undone. We have not loved you with our whole heart; we have not loved our neighbors as ourselves. We are truly sorry and we humbly repent. For the sake of your Son Jesus Christ, have mercy on us and forgive us; th
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(for Luther, the cross is the hermeneutic of divine action, not a mechanism or machine of atonement). The theology of the cross claims that God’s ministering of life out of death starts and ends with epiphany.