The Atonement

by Martin Hengel

Book Overview

In the wake of suggestions that the doctrine of the atoning death of Christ did not come into being in the earliest stages of Christianity, Martin Hengel forcefully argues with impeccable scholarship that the doctrine can be traced back to the earliest church, indeed to the sayings of Jesus himself. In the first part of this examination, Hengel explores a wide area of classical antiquity. Would it have made sense to Greeks and Romans of the first...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 155635231X
• ISBN13: 9781556352317
• Release Date: February 2007
• Publisher: Wipf & Stock Publishers
• Length: 132 Pages
• Weight: 0.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 5.6" x 8.5"