Limited Atonement

 Works on Limited or Definite Atonement
(Thanks to Monergism.com for many of these links)

  • Packer's Intro to Owen's Death of Death (Highly recommended) The Death of Death in the Death of Christ (Owen Works, X:139:148) is a polemical piece, designed to show among other things, that the doctrine of universal redemption is unscriptural and destructive of the gospel...[But]There are signs today of a new upsurge of interest in the theology of the Bible: a new readiness to test traditions, to search the Scriptures and to think through the faith.
  • For Whom Did Jesus Taste Death? by John Piper
    Glory in this, Christian. Glory that your sins really were covered when Jesus tasted death for you. Glory that your guilt really was removed when Jesus tasted death for you. Glory that the curse of the law really was lifted and that the wrath of God really was removed, and that the precious faith that unites you to all this treasure in Christ was a gift purchased by the blood of Christ.
  • The Reformed Faith and Arminianism: Provision or Application? by John Murray
    The Lord Jesus, by his perfect obedience and sacrifice of himself, which he through the eternal Spirit once offered up unto God, hath fully satisfied the justice of his Father; and purchased not only reconciliation, but an everlasting inheritance in the kingdom of heaven, for all those whom the Father hath given unto him.
  • Definite Atonement by Douglas Wilson
    One of the reasons I object so strongly to terms like limited atonement is that it does nothing but reinforce a theological caricature that many have in their minds. I believe that Jesus purchased a definite number of people when He died. But there is no reason we must believe that the number was a small one. He came into the world to save the world, and He will be content with nothing less than a saved world.
  • 2 Peter 2:1 and Universal Redemption by Simon Escobedo III New!What about 2 Peter 2:1? This is one of many questions that surface during conversations between Reformed and non-Reformed1 believers when discussing the emotionally charged issue of “Particular Redemption”

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Works on Penal Substitutionary Atonement

  • The Current Downgrade in the Doctrine of the Atonement by David H. Linden The Bible’s teaching on the cross is the core of the gospel. Many in North America say that peripheries do not matter; only core truths are ones we should contend for. This has been said so often, it is clear that what does not matter is theology itself. I know this because now that truth about the cross fades, there is very little outcry. Those who spoke so loyally of allegiance to the core are not very alarmed while the gospel slowly slips away.
  • Christ Our Penal Substitute by R.L. Dabney
    But our opponents may now exclaim, that, by proving that God's motive in his punishments is not merely remedial but retributive, we only succeed in making him out a vindictive person, and therefore abhorrent, instead of an object of reverence to right minds. They say that vindicatory punishments are mere revenge, and revenge is sinful and odious. They assert that the concept of retributive sufferings, indicted merely to satisfy moral resentment, is barbaric.
  • The Atonement of Jesus Christ by Brian Schwertley
    Many people today regard the idea of the atonement as barbaric and outmoded. They often say: “Why would God require or even allow His Son to be tortured and killed in such a bloody humiliating manner? Isn’t God a God of love? Could He not just forgive people’s sins without the awful shedding of blood?
  • The Atonement By John Murray
    All that has been achieved by Christ's vicarious undertaking must always be subordinated to the design and purpose of the Father's love. This is the orientation which the classic exponents of Reformed doctrine have always recognized, and it is a caricature of their position to suppose that they represented the love and compassion of the Father as constrained by the sacrifice of Christ.
  • The Everlasting Righteousness or How Shall Man Be Just with God? by Horatius Bonar
    Devotional Study of Christ's Atonement. One of the finest and most uplifting treatments of truths which have changed nations and centuries.
  • The Wrath of God in Relation to the Atonement by Frederick S. Leahy New!
    If we are wrong in our doctrine of God, we are wrong all along the line. We shall be in error in every doctrine of the Faith if we hold an erroneous doctrine of God. So our doctrine of God will relate powerfully to our doctrine of the Atonement. If, for example, we do not believe that God is a God of wrath as well as a God of love, and that his essential holiness means the inevitable punishment of sin, then we shall not believe in the substitutionary and vicarious nature of Christ’s death on the Cross.




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