The Atonement: It's Meaning and Significance

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Summary: trimming a complex concept down to essentials
Review: I find the word very confusing, it's so long. But it's basically at-one ment, i.e. becoming one, and I hear further it's by means of substitution. This book is the best book I've seen to explain all the big words on the subject, even though I still find this book hard to follow sometimes. Hey, are we talking becoming whole and complete and so forth by integrating all of our emotions and so forth? I think so, and this RELIABLE scholar is dedicating a lot of his life to making it easier for the rest of us to comprehend this message.

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Summary: The standard work on the atonement
Review: There are some books that do such a wonderful job covering a single biblical concept that you wonder, why would anyone else want to write on the topic? I believe Bible scholar Leon Morris has accomplished such a fete with his book on atonement. Although not a skim-through kind of book that might appeal to all Christian laypeople, it is not difficult to read this book word by word and come away with a far greater appreciation of how God worked in both the Old and New Testaments when it comes to the atonement of God. (Trust me, he could have been much more technical and have lost many average readers, but thankfully he doesn't.) He fully describes the words associated with the atonement, including Passover, redemption, reconciliation, and justification. Salvation is such a rich idea, it's a shame many Christians go through life not fully understanding the gift that they've been given.