What I Like (and Don’t Like) about Non-Penal-Satisfaction Theories of Atonement
Matt Pinson Reformed Arminians emphasize what Leroy Forlines called the penal-satisfaction model of atonement. (Forlines, with scholars like Charles Hodge, J. I. Packer, and Thomas Oden, liked this more precise phrase that refers to what most people call penal-substitutionary atonement.) I have discussed this approach elsewhere at greater…
A Note on the Passing of Theologian Thomas Oden
by W. Jackson Watts I was saddened, along with many others, to learn of the recent passing of Thomas Oden. Oden was arguably the most prolific, conservative Methodist theologian alive at the time of his death this past Thursday. Mark Tooley, a colleague of his, has published a short tribute to Oden at the…