This edition of the modern theological classic carries a new introduction by Jaroslav Pelikan. From the Foreword:"Gustaf Aulen's Christus Victor is in many ways worthy of the overworked accolade 'a modern classic'. For in the almost forty years since its appearance in English it has become the starting point for countless essays, articles, and books on the doctrine of the Atonement; and its title has established itself in the theological usage of Swedish, German, and English as a technical term in its own right, so that even those who have not read the book use the phrase. Its appearance in paperback should introduce an entire generation of new readers to the historical and theological exposition through which Bishop Aulen, then professor of systematic theology at the University of Lund, first drew the attention of an international audience.It is the criterion of a great work of theology that it sets the ground rules for a discussion even if that discussion goes beyond the original argument."

Christus Victor: An Historical Study of the Three Main Types of the Idea of the Atonement (English and Swedish Edition)

Religion & Spirituality

Gustaf Aulén

Christian Books & Bibles

Macmillan Pub. Co.

The Drama and the Symbols: A Book on Images of God and the Problems They Raise

S.P.C.K.

Text: English, Swedish (translation)

Christus Victor: An Historical Study of the Three Main Ideas of the Atonement (S.P.C.K. large paperbacks, 16)

SPCK Publishing

Dr. Aulén was Professor of Systematic Theology in the University of Lund, and this book is a translation of the Olaus Petri Lectures delivered by him before the University of Uppsala in March and April, 1930. The same lectures were also delivered in Germany in September, 1930, in a much condensed form, the eight lectures being brought down to three, with the title of Die drei Haupttypen des christlichen Versöhnungsgedankens, and were published in Zeitschrift für systematische Theologie, 1930, pp. 501–538. This book is strictly an historical study; it contains no personal statement of belief or theory of the Atonement. Its important and original contribution is its strong delineation of the view of the Atonement which is summed up in such phrases as ‘Christus Victor,’ and ‘God was in Christ reconciling the world to Himself’—the view that sets the Incarnation in direct connection with the Atonement, and proclaims that it is God Himself who in Christ has delivered mankind from the power of evil. As soon as the meaning of this view is grasped, the patristic teaching at once stands out as a strong, clear, and consistent whole, and it becomes impossible to doubt that it is this view which also dominates the New Testament; it has therefore every right to be called the typical Christian view, or, in Dr. Aulén’s phrase, the ‘classic’ idea of the Atonement. Evidently, too, it is to be distinguished from the view which grew up in the West on the basis of the forensic idea of sin as transgression of law, and which received its first clear formulation from Anselm; for that view regards the Atonement as not in the full sense God’s work, but rather as the act whereby man in Christ makes reparation for man’s sin. Dr. Aulén proceeds to show that Luther revived the classic idea of the Atonement with mighty power, but that Luther’s successors went back to the forensic view, which thus came to dominate orthodox Protestantism; and that the theologians of the ‘subjective’ or exemplarist view, which arose to challenge the accepted forensic theory, so far from returning to the classic idea, diverged from it still further, and concentrated their whole attention on the psychological process of man’s reformation. Dr. Aulén closes with the hopeful expectation that we shall yet see the classic idea of the Atonement return in its strength; for with all his restraint, he cannot conceal where his own sympathies lie.

Christus Victor

CrossReach Publications

A. Hebert

CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform

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 in tracing the development of three views of the atonement. Aulen asserts that in traditional histories of the doctrine of the atonement only two views have usually been presented, the objective/Anselmian and the subjective/Aberlardian views. 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. This view he calls the "classic" idea of the atonement. Because of its predominance in the New Testament, in patristic writings, and in the theology of Luther, Aulen holds that the classic type may be called the distinctively Christian idea of the atonement.

Christus Victor: An Historical Study of the Three Main Types of the Idea of Atonement

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Christus Victor: An Historical Study of the Three Main Types of the Idea of the Atonement (English and Swedish Edition)

The Drama and the Symbols: A Book on Images of God and the Problems They Raise

Christus Victor: An Historical Study of the Three Main Ideas of the Atonement (S.P.C.K. large paperbacks, 16)

Christus Victor

Christus Victor: An Historical Study of the Three Main Types of the Idea of Atonement

Christus Victor