I was wondering if anyone knew/could recommend publications that address these particular issues, preferably more than just a cursory explanation:
Christus Victor view of the atonement
Rapture (and no, I don’t mean the likes of LaHaye and Hagee!)
Thanks!
Αυτω η δοξα,
Jason
Mark Stevens
/ August 10, 2010as far as I am aware Wright holds to the Christos Victor view.
Rick Wadholm Jr
/ August 10, 2010My understanding of Wright is that he would hold to the Christus Victor view only as part of a wider view of the atonement. His view on justification seems to suggest that Christus Victor is not his predominant take as far as justification would be concerned.
Rick Wadholm Jr
/ August 10, 2010I read where Paul Feinberg wrote for Pre-Trib, Gleason Archer for Mid-Trib., and Doug Moo for Post-Trib. (all of them at that time being professors of TEDS); but their is an update coming out by the same name: where Craig Blaising takes the Pre-Trib, Alan Hultberg the Pre-Wrath, and Doug Moo the Post-Trib. I found the first issue to be helpful, but wonder if this update wouldn’t be better. For the most part the counter-point series is well-done (though some have been better than others).
Rick Wadholm Jr
/ August 10, 2010(I didn’t get the formatting right the first time and so it cut off the titles…sorry…hopefully this one actually works with the html properly tagged):
I read where Paul Feinberg wrote for Pre-Trib, Gleason Archer for Mid-Trib., and Doug Moo for Post-Trib. (all of them at that time being professors of TEDS); but their is an update coming out by the same name: where Craig Blaising takes the Pre-Trib, Alan Hultberg the Pre-Wrath, and Doug Moo the Post-Trib. I found the first issue to be helpful, but wonder if this update wouldn’t be better. For the most part the counter-point series is well-done (though some have been better than others).
Mark Stevens
/ August 10, 2010Sorry, that should read Christus not Christos
Nick Norelli
/ August 10, 2010Jason: On Christus Victor check out J. Denny Weaver’s The Nonviolent Atonement and Gustaf Aulen’s Christus Victor: An Historical Study of the Three Main Types of the Idea of Atonement.
For the Rapure check out Thomas Ice’s Pre-Trib Research Center. Tons of articles on the rapture from various authors.
Esteban Vázquez
/ August 10, 2010The classic statement of the Christus Victor “view” is Gustaf Aulén’s book by the same name. There have been many critiques and refinements of this, but there’s no sense in reading those if you haven’t read their starting point.
As for the “rapture,” I too recommend the Zondervan Counterpoints volume.
diglot
/ August 10, 2010Jason, as one who holds to Christus Victor view of atonement, I would recommend Atonement and Violence – A Theological Conversation (edited by John Sanders). It contains (four?) essays on the subject of atonement, with the focus being on Christus Victor and penal substitution. I did a review of it on my blog earlier this year.
Jason
/ August 10, 2010Everyone: Thanks, as always, for your helpful suggestions–wishlist updated!
Brian Gunter
/ August 11, 2010Jason, we have a resident expert on Calvin’s doctrine of the atonement at SWBTS. Dr. Kevin Kennedy recently wrote his doctoral dissertation arguing that Calvin actually did not teach limited atonement as defined by Dortian and modern Calvinist theologians. By the way, Dr. Quarles holds this same view, as we have discussed before. Anyways, you may want to buy a copy of his dissertation which was published as a book and can be found at the SWBTS bookstore. Also, the SWBTS library will probably let you check out a copy for free.