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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1920 edition. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER XIII THE DOCTRINE OF THE ATONEMENT IN MODERN TIMES We have now completed the main part of our task, the characterization of the great historical theories of the Atonement which have from time to time dominated the thought of the Church. Ransom theories. Bargain Jtheories, Satisfaction theories. PenaLthfiories, Rgcjoral theories, all have had their day, and all have added their contribution to the thought of subsequent ages. Only one of the old theories, the Moral theory, with its emphasis upon the manward aspect oT""Atonement, remained to receive a fuller and more adequate expression in recent years. It, too, had a contribution to bring, a contribution which the Church has been slow to accept. The receiving of that contribution is the special mark of the present day. No attempt will be made in this chapter to give a complete account of modern thought upon the doctrine of the Atonement. Writers upon the subject have never been so numerous, or so diverse in their conclusions. We do not as yet stand far enough away from them to estimate them at their true worth. One or two great treatises stand out as landmarks. Certain tendencies can be observed in different quarters. But the complete exposition of those tendencies must be left to the historian of the future. The historian of to-day can only set the present, as he sees it, against the background of the past, hoping thereby to read its meaning the more clearly, but conscious that the broad outlines of the picture may well be obscured by the very wealth of detail.1, " To one tendency of modern theology allusion has 'already been made, * the tendency in Roman, and in Uome Anglican, writers tnjrptaip fop Satiqfnrtinn thawy with a strong emphasis upon the conception of sacrifice as the...