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All Blog Posts With Tag: penal substitutionary atonement

Update January 15, 2019: I explained this meme's meaning on twitter, after several people asked about it. Click on the following tweet and read the thread. Penal Substitutionary Atonement (#PSA) is an Atonement Theory The was formulated in the post-reformation period, and was developed from Anselm’s Satisfaction Theory. There are many […]
 
Penal Substitutionary Atonement (PSA) is one of many atonement theories, and is the most commonly held theory among evangelicals today. Sadly, Penal Substitutionary Atonement is wrongly assumed to be the only biblical view of atonement, and in the most egregious cases, it is tragically identified with the gospel, and anachronistically […]
 
Anselm of Canterbury's (1033 – 1109)  Cur Deus Homo (Why God Became Man) is particular famous for being the first concise statement of the "Satisfaction Theory of Atonement." Anselm's Satisfaction theory is the bedrock for all modern orthodox understandings of atonement, including the fullest expression in "Penal-Substitutionary Atonement." Anselm argues that the previous […]