Chapter 10

§ 1. Confusion in the Orthodox Statement. § 2. Great Importance attributed to this Doctrine. § 3. Stress laid on the Death of Jesus in the Scripture. § 4. Difficulty in interpreting these Scripture Passages. § 5. Theological Theories based on the Figurative Language of the New Testament. § 6. The three principal Views of the Atonement—warlike, legal, and governmental. § 7. Impression made by Christ’s Death on the Minds of his Disciples. First Theory on the Subject in the Epistle to the Hebrews. § 8. Value of Suffering as a Means of Education. § 9. The Human Conscience suggests the Need of some Satisfaction in order to our Forgiveness. § 10. How the Death of Jesus brings Men to God. § 11. This Law of Vicarious Suffering universal. § 12. This Law illustrated from History—in the Death of Socrates, Joan of Arc, Savonarola, and Abraham Lincoln. § 13. Dr. Bushnell’s View of the Atonement. § 14. Results of this Discussion.