{"product_id":"suffering-not-power-atonement-in-the-middle-ages","title":"Suffering, not Power – Atonement in the Middle Ages","description":"\u003cb\u003eCorrecting a popular view of the atonement\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003eWas Christ's death a victory over death or a substitution for sin? Many today follow Gustav Aulén's \u003ci\u003eChristus Victor \u003c\/i\u003eview, which portrays Christ's death as primarily a victory over the powers of evil and death. According to Aulén, this was the dominant view of the church until Anselm reframed atonement as satisfaction and the Reformers reframed it as penal substitution. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eIn Suffering, Not Power,\u003c\/i\u003e Benjamin Wheaton challenges this common narrative. Sacrificial and substitutionary language was common well before Anselm's \u003ci\u003eCur Deus Homo.\u003c\/i\u003e Wheaton displays this through a careful analysis of three medieval figures whose writings on the atonement are commonly overlooked: Caesarius of Arles, Haimo of Auxerre, and Dante Alighieri. These individuals come from different times and contexts and wrote in different genres, but each spoke of Christ's death as a sacrifice of expiation and propitiation made by God to God. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eLet history speak for itself, read the evidence, and reconsider the church's belief in Christ's substitutionary death for sinners.","brand":"Faithlife Corporation","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49605782110552,"sku":"9781683595991","price":31.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0278\/1295\/4195\/files\/9781683595991.jpg?v=1778652076","url":"https:\/\/agendabookshop.com\/products\/suffering-not-power-atonement-in-the-middle-ages","provider":"Agenda Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}