Aulén argues that Christus Victor (or as Aulén called it the “classic view”) was the predominant view of the early church and. Gustaf Aulen’s classic work, ‘Christus Victor’, has long been a standard text on the atonement. Aulen applies “history of ideas’ methodology to historical theology. Read “Christus Victor” by Gustaf Aulén with Rakuten Kobo. Dr. Aulén is Professor of Systematic Theology in the University of Lund, and this book is a translation.
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Reading Gustaf Aulen’s classic study of the atonement, I learned that if I had grown up in the s during the heyday of liberal Christianity, I might have embraced the “subjective” view of the atonement: Please improve it by verifying the claims made and adding inline citations. Once the Devil accepted Christ’s death as a ransom, this theory concluded, justice was satisfied and God was able to free us from Satan’s grip.
While most of the little details have been proven impreci Aulen challenges the then-received wisdom that atonement theology was not seriously developed until basically Anselm, arguing that the first millennium of the church — as well as the East since, and many in the West — held a powerful understanding of the “atonement” worth bringing to the table. The Freedom of a Christian, The notion of the substitutional atonement as the substitutional subject or as “one-for-the-other” must be revisited apart from the Latin view of Anselm and of the Protestant Orthodox.
Its strength lies in its presentation of a vivid and robust picture of the work of Christ. Longman, Green, Longman, Roberts, and Green,p. This view, Aulen claims, inserts an opposition into the Divine relationship that does not exist in Christus Victor, and maintains a legal emphasis that is reversed in Early church thought.
He explains how the legalistic model of the Western Church arose: How We Got Our Bible.
Christus Victor by Gustaf Aulén
I obtained this book in New York. His argument from the Fathers particularly of Sts. In this “classic” view, Jesus came to Earth to free us from our bondage to sin, death and the Devil, and his crucifixion and return to life were a victorious conquering of our slavery to death and sin. That we are justified through Christ is, he says, one and the same thing as to say that He is the conqueror of sin, death, and the everlasting curse Goodreads helps you keep track of books you want to read.
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According to Aulen, however, there is another type of atonement doctrine in which Christ overcomes the hostile powers that hold humanity in subjection, at the same time that God in Christ reconciles the world to Himself.
Second, Aulen did not interact sufficiently with the primary texts, instead glossing over them as if he didn’t need to quote his sources. The Breeze of the Centuries.
This is to be contrasted with the Latin views of the atonement, which are narrowly penal. Aulen’s book was a much-needed elucidation for me. Furthermore, Death, Sin, and the Devil personalized forces in Christus Victorare overthrown since Jesus’ subsequent Resurrection breaks the dominion they once held over human life.
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Do not let the complexity of the book cause you to leave it off of your to-read list. A Primary Source Reader. The Mennonite theologian J. It is very helpful in adding to or helping you develop your theology on the atonement. Another exception to this linear progression is Tertullian, who along with Gregory the Great, started the motif of the judicial or legalistic view of atonement, which was later picked up and fully developed by Anselm of Canterbury, thus consolidating the view for the whole medieval period.
Atonement, or Reconciliation, becomes essentially a sense of being at home in the cosmos, gained through the uplift of the soul, or aulej new chriztus to life, characterised by harmony with the universe. Refresh and try again. But that is no excuse for smoothing over the primary text by importing a thesis garnered from the secondary ones. It is definitely not for beginners.
Thus God the Father and God the Son are not set at odds by the Cross with the first in the role of Judge and the second in the role of Sinner, but are united in seeking the downfall of the Devil’s system of chhristus, death, and Law that enslaves humanity. The Eucharistic Cjristus and the World. The Hebrew word ” tikkun olam ,” repairing the world, has the same idea.
He states multiple times in the book that he’s not writing an apologetic work in favor of the “classic” Christus Victor view of the atonement, but it’s obvious to see where his sympathies lie.
Mar 04, Graham Heslop rated it liked it. One major difference he sees between the classic model and the later penal models is an emphasis on Christ’s divinity in the former and Christ’s humanity in the latter. But Christ conquered death on the cross, rescuing humanity from the bondage of evil and thus restoring creation chrixtus to life and reconciling humanity to God. Growing up in the evangelical church, I had always assumed that “penal substitution” was simply the only way of understanding Christ’s atoning work.
It’s not an apologetic for Christus Victor, but a thorough history on christux three views.
No eBook available WipfandStock. Open Preview See a Problem? A valuable elucidation of how Atonement was understood for the thousand years before Anselm got hold of it, how it was distorted further by the Reformers, and how a liberalizing backlash denuded the cross of virtually all import.
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The ransom theory was the main view of atonement through the first thousand years of Christian history, though it was never made a required belief. That may be a powerful motivating force and understandablybut I believe the primary motivating force behind the view is Scripture itself, and the desire to be faithful to Scripture.
The idea of purchase at a price is foreign to the chfistus view held by the Greek Fathers. Want to Read saving…. But for now, and here, I will merely outline christux few of the weaknesses I perceived in the argument, in no specific order: The Incarnation or resurrection does not figure into the work of salvation.