We continue our Lenten series on Fleming Rutledge’s outstanding book, The Crucifixion: Understanding the Death of Jesus Christ (2015).
This post is staying with Rutledge’s discussion of Anselm.
We come back to big questions
What happened at the cross?
What picture does the cross give us of God? Does the Son die on the cross to appease the wrath of a vindictive Father?
Anselm’s satisfaction ‘theory’ of the atonement has had many detractors. The term ‘child abuse’ for the Son’s suffering on the cross to appease the wrath of a vindictive Father did not originate with Steve Chalke, it…
