The latest (summer) issue of The Southern Baptist Journal of Theology has just been published and is focusing on the ever important doctrine of the atonement — the primary doctrine which has been under attack in evangelicalism.
Fellow Canadian Dr. Stephen J. Wellum (professor of Christian Theology), in the opening editorial writes,
“…in the evangelical church today we are in danger of downplaying and even distorting the true meaning and signifi cance of the cross.
A number of examples could be given to demonstrate this last observation, but I want to focus on one disconcerting trend that is increasingly occurring in evangelical theology, namely, an effort to reinterpret the cross in non-substitutionary terms.”
Continue reading Wellum’s article “Articulating, Defending, and Proclaiming Christ our Substitute”.
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