This Old House: Penal Substitution and the Justice Worry
William Lane Craig has put a lot of clever work into trying to remodel and restore the penal substitution view of atonement. I argue, however, that Craig has fallen into a money pit. His penal substitutionary view is vulnerable to two versions of the justice worry. And his case for his view is metho...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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| Interlibrary Loan: | Interlibrary Loan for the Fachinformationsdienste (Specialized Information Services in Germany) |
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2025
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Philosophia Christi
Year: 2025, Volume: 27, Issue: 1, Pages: 31-43 |
| IxTheo Classification: | HA Bible NBC Doctrine of God NBE Anthropology NBK Soteriology NBM Doctrine of Justification |
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| Summary: | William Lane Craig has put a lot of clever work into trying to remodel and restore the penal substitution view of atonement. I argue, however, that Craig has fallen into a money pit. His penal substitutionary view is vulnerable to two versions of the justice worry. And his case for his view is methodologically flawed; it assumes biblical Mooreanism, which I argue does not apply in theorizing about atonement. I present a better, inference to the best explanation, theological methodology and suggest that on it other atonement theories fare better than penal substitution. |
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| ISSN: | 2640-2580 |
| Reference: | Kritik von "Atonement and the death of Christ (Waco, Texas : Baylor University Press, 2020)"
Kritik in "Christ, Our Indemnitor (2025)" |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Philosophia Christi
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.5840/pc20252714 |