Historic Theories of the Atonement by Robert Mackintosh

Robert Mackintosh provides a helpful historical survey of theories of the atonement up to the 1920s. This public domain title was digitised from the copy held in Spurgeon’s College library.

Robert Mackintosh [1858-1933], Historic Theories of Atonement with Comments. London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1920. Hbk. pp.319. [Click to visit the download page for this title]

Table of Contents

• Preface

1. Introduction—The Moral Necessity of Atonement
2. Old Testament Preparation for the Doctrine
3. Christ’s Thought of His Own Death
4. The Apostolic Teaching of Atonement
5. Greek Church Theories, Exoteric and Esoteric
6. Starting-point and Drift of Western Catholic Doctrine
7. Anselm and Satisfaction to the Divine Honour
8. Abelard and Moral Influence Theories
9. Historic Protestantism and the Penal Scheme
10. Grotianism and its Echoes
11. R.W. Dale and the Fact of the Atonement
12. Theories of Vicarious Penitence
13. “Redemption by Sample”
14. Some Minor Theories (Bushnell, Fairbairn, Westcott, Ritschel)
15. Personal Relationships and Divine Anger
16. Denney and the Problem of Christ’s Physical Death
17. Epilogue—A Tentative Construction on Atonement
    

• Index

If you are interested in this subject then you might like the following book as well. It is available on the online University library Perlego and you can read it using a subscription or a free trial.

Colin E. Gunton, The Actuality of Atonement. A Study of Metaphor, Rationality and the Christian Tradition. Edinburgh: T & T Clark, 2003. [Click here to read on Perlego]

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