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Atonement in Confessional Lutheran Theology: Chorus of Voices

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Synoptic Text Information Services has released the second title in the series Atonement in Confessional Lutheran Theology. The new title is Atonement in Confessional Lutheran Theology: Chorus of Voices. This volume is an anthology that presents a chorus of Lutheran voices teaching the Lutheran doctrine of Christ’s atonement. Their writings are evidence of two distinct things: Before and aside from whether it is true, what the Lutheran doctrine of atonement is. The Lutheran doctrine of atonement is true from Scripture and is the doctrine confessed in the Lutheran confessions. On the first of those things, there are theologians and teachers…

Second Edition of Atonement in Lutheran Orthodoxy: Johannes Quenstedt

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Johannes Quenstedt’s De Officio Christi is an antidote to errors about atonement in Lutheran circles. Lutheran Orthodoxy teaches that an indispensable part of atonement is vicarious satisfaction. Adversaries deny vicarious satisfaction. Their errors existed already in Quenstedt’s time. While teaching the orthodox truth, Quenstedt thoroughly refutes the adversaries from Scripture. Robert D. Preus says, “Quenstedt was the Thomas Aquinas, so to speak, of Lutheran Orthodoxy, the last great representative. … [H]e was fair and meticulous in his work and drew from the best which his precursors had to offer. … Quenstedt’s systematic section on the Atonement actually presents nothing but exegesis of…