Suffering, not Power: Atonement in the Middle Ages Author: Benjamin Wheaton Retail Price: $26.99 Our Price: $15.49 Save: 11.50 (42.61%) Availability: In Stock        Was Christ’s death a victory over death or a substitution for sin? Many today follow Gustav Aulén’s Christus Victor view, which portrays Christ’s death as primarily a victory over the powers of evil and death. According to Aulén, this was the dominant view of the church until Anselm reframed atonement as satisfaction and the Reformers reframed it as penal substitution. In Suffering, Not Power, Benjamin Wheaton challenges this common narrative. Sacrificial and substitutionary language was common well before Anselm’s Cur Deus Homo. Wheaton displays this through a careful analysis of three medieval figures whose writings on the atonement are commonly overlooked: Caesarius of Arles, Haimo of Auxerre, and Dante Alighieri. These individuals come from different times and contexts and wrote in different genres, but each spoke of Christ’s death as a sacrifice of expiation and propitiation made by God to God. Similar Items you may enjoy! 2,000 Years of Christ's Power: The Middle Ages - Volume 2 Author: Nick Needham Our Price: $20.99 Bonds of Wool: The Pallium and Papal Power in the Middle Ages Author: Steven A. Schoenig Our Price: $41.50 2,000 Years of Christ's Power: The Middle Ages - Volume 2 - Slightly Imperfect Author: Nick Needham Our Price: $16.79 Tolkien's Modern Reading: Middle-Earth Beyond the Middle Ages Author: Holly Ordway Our Price: $26.96

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