Alexander Pruss's Blog

Usually, Christ’s sacrifice of the Cross is thought of as atonement for our sins before God. This leads to old theological question: Why can...

On one family of theories of the atonement, the harsh treatment that justice called for in the light of our sins is imposed on Christ and th...

Consider the standard problem for penal substitution views: How is it that an innocent person's suffering harsh treatment removes the gu...

On Friday I was feeling somewhat poorly and in the interests of public health (not that I minded!) I opted out of participation in the PhD g...

There is a danger in seeing Christ's work of redemption as solely focused on one's individual sins. But at the same time the lived ...

One way to put the question of the theory of the atonement might seem be to ask with Anselm : "Why did God become man?" I do ...

According to the penal substitution theory of the atonement, Christ's sufferings satisfy justice in place of our being punished. Th...

Indeed he is risen! Here is an interesting question.  Why is Easter the greatest liturgical celebration of the year for Christians rather ...

My previous post on atonement implicitly identified one constraint ("must") and one desideratum ("should") fo...

Every orthodox Christian agrees that: Salvation occurs at least in part because of Christ's death on the cross. The "a...

According to substitutionary views of the atonement, Christ suffered a suffering that was due to us for our sins. Substitutiona...