Podcast appearances and mentions of christ atonement

On this episode of Salty Believer Unscripted, Josiah Walker and Bryan Catherman discuss the controversial issues in the theology of Christ, atonement, and the resurrection. These are complicated matters and it's helpful to know where the big challenges and difficult topics are found. Copyright 2023. For more information, please visit SaltyBeliever.com.

In the last of our series for Advent 2020 on the Characteristics of Christ, we look at the atonement and the incarnation. We discuss Jesus’ saving work of the atonement and the necessity of the Incarnation to save God’s people.” This sermon was delivered on Sunday, December 20, 2020.

Poor Anselm, the favorite medieval-scholastic whipping boy of apparently enlightened moderns. Outraged at the attack on Anselm's honor, Dad and I endeavor to make satisfaction for his slandered reputation, give the best and most charitable account of his atonement theory, make some slight tweaks to it in a Lutheran-ish direction while taking serious issue with Gustaf Aulén's attempt to do the same, and overall make the case that the Anselmian concern for justice and recompense is not nearly as foreign to our sensibilities nowadays as his cultured despisers like to claim. Notes: 1. Anselm of Canterbury’s Cur Deus Homo can be found in A Scholastic Miscellany 2. Gustaf Aulén, Christus Victor 3. Karl Barth, Anselm: Fides Quaerens Intellectum 4. The Nominalists, from the Latin nomen (“name”), were a school of late medieval philosophers who held that concepts do not exist in reality (opposing the position of the “realists”) but are only names that human beings create to categorize or classify really existing things or persons. As Dad explains to students: “To me, the tree stump along the Appalachian Trail is a chair, but to a termite, it’s a meal.” While we’re at it, Dad—who once described himself as anti-Kantian par excellence, has co-authored a book arguing that Kant is just Plato continued by other means, and has written another book on the confrontation between biblical and philosophical monotheism in the Arian controversy (Divine Complexity)—discusses the various atonement “theories” in chapter 3 of Luther and the Beloved Community. 5. The divine dei in Greek means “it is necessary” 6. Anselm’s definition of God as “that than which nothing greater can be conceived” is found in his work the Proslogion 7. Brandt Jean’s victim-impact statement 8. Friedrich Nietzsche talks about the “evil genius” of God dying for His debtors in Beyond Good and Evil 9. A major source for Luther’s christology is his Confession Concerning Christ’s Supper 10. The Tome of Leo is a patristic document supporting the two natures of Christ but at the cost of assigning very different duties to each nature in a hermetically sealed kind of way 11. admirabile commercium = joyful exchange (in Latin) 12. Peter Abelard gave his version of “atonement” theology in his commentary on Romans, an excerpt of which is also in A Scholastic Miscellany 13. Gerhard O. Forde, “The Work of Christ: Atonement as Actual Event,” in Christian Dogmatics vol. 2 14. Hans Urs von Balthasar writes about Luther’s doctrine of atonement in Theo-Drama vol. 4 15. Gustaf Aulén’s later book is The Faith of the Christian Church More about us at sarahhinlickywilson.com and paulhinlicky.com!

Welcome to the second season of Queen of the Sciences! We begin our conversations in 2020 with a deep dive into the foolishness and stumbling block that is the crucifixion of Jesus Christ. Overfamiliar today as a religious symbol, the cross was once the supreme declaration that the person thereon was trash, subhuman, and beyond redemption—certainly not capable of redeeming others. We try to imagine ourselves back into the shame of crucifixion, examine its uses in Roman political control, and explore how the death of God upon it can possibly become the source of eternal life. Notes: 1. Ernst Käsemann, “The Saving Significance of the Death of Jesus,” in Perspectives on Paul 2. Martin Hengel, Crucifixion 3. Philip Freeman, Julius Caesar (both the quote from Cicero and the description of Caesar’s use of crucifixions) 4. Fleming Rutledge, The Crucifixion 5. Maasai Creed (“the hyenas did not touch him”) 6. Ferdinand Schlingensiepen, Dietrich Bonhoeffer 1906–1945 7. Eberhard Bethge, Dietrich Bonhoeffer 8. Plato, The Phaedo 9. “Alexamenos worships his god” 10. Deuteronomy 21:22–23, “And if a man has committed a crime punishable by death and he is put to death, and you hang him on a tree, his body shall not remain all night on the tree, but you shall bury him the same day, for a hanged man is cursed by God. You shall not defile your land that the Lord your God is giving you for an inheritance.” 11. Galatians 3:13, “Christ redeemed us from the curse of the law by becoming a curse for us—for it is written, ‘Cursed is everyone who is hanged on a tree.’” 12. “Propitiation” = reconciliation to God by satisfying his wrath. “Expiation” = reconciliation to God by removal of the cause of offense, namely sin. 13. Gerhard O. Forde, “The Work of Christ: Atonement as Actual Event,” in Christian Dogmatics vol. 2 14. Philip Melanchthon, Apology to the Augsburg Confession, Art. 4 on “why Christ is necessary” 15. Calvin, Institutes vol. 1, Book One, Chapter I: “The Knowledge of God and That of Ourselves Are Connected. How They Are Interrelated” 16. Luther, Galatians commentary, Luther’s Works vol. 26, pp. 276–291, on Christ’s taking the world’s sin into himself 17. Romans 3:25b, “This was to show God’s righteousness, because in his divine forbearance he had passed over former sins.” 18. John Newton, “Amazing Grace” 19. Nietzsche, “God on a cross is the transvaluation of all values,” in The Antichrist 20. George Lindbeck, The Nature of Doctrine More about us at sarahhinlickywilson.com and paulhinlicky.com!

The Cross of Christ: Atonement for Sin | Matthew 27:45-46 | 4/30/2017 by Pastor Joey Newton

Senior Pastor Byron Beck concludes the series on Atonement with a message dealing with sacrifice.  To really advance the kingdom of Christ one has to sacrifice.  Giving is great, but giving when it hurts is kingdom advancing.  To truly become one with Christ (Atonement) is to be like Him as we sacrifice all that we can.