http://thinkingreed.wordpress.com/2006/09/05/brunner-on-the-atonement/ "Man is but a reed, the most feeble thing in nature, but he is a thinking reed" - Blaise Pascal Tue, 08 Dec 2009 23:52:45 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 http://thinkingreed.wordpress.com/2006/09/05/brunner-on-the-atonement/#comment-23048 James Mon, 08 Dec 2008 15:09:35 +0000 http://thinkingreed.wordpress.com/2006/09/05/brunner-on-the-atonement/#comment-23048 I feel that a careful examination of Brunner in his later dogmatics will reveal that he is not a centered in the cross as the fixed point of atonement, but that the scriptures give us 5 pictures of atonement which cannot be brought together into one. I am most comfortable that each of thse must be held and explored as entirely true regardless of the apperent conflicts. The God-man is big enough for these things to all be true. The various modes of atonement then are not collapsed into one. Concise will never be an option for such an expansive glory as the incarnation. I feel that a careful examination of Brunner in his later dogmatics will reveal that he is not a centered in the cross as the fixed point of atonement, but that the scriptures give us 5 pictures of atonement which cannot be brought together into one. I am most comfortable that each of thse must be held and explored as entirely true regardless of the apperent conflicts. The God-man is big enough for these things to all be true. The various modes of atonement then are not collapsed into one. Concise will never be an option for such an expansive glory as the incarnation.

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