Disciple Quote by Oliver D. Crisp

For instance, the notion of non-penal substitution. This idea, found in the work of the nineteenth century Scottish Reformed theologian John McLeod Campbell and…

— Oliver D. Crisp

In The Lost Message of Jesus I claim that penal substitution is tantamount to 'child abuse - a vengeful Father punishing his Son for…

— Steve Chalke

“True, the doctrine of purgatory was not so popular outside Roman circles in the nineteenth century. But “penal substitution,” which had been emphasized partly…

— N.T. Wright

In vain, without the Bible, we increase penal laws and draw entrenchments around our institutions.

— James McHenry

REPENTANCE, n. The faithful attendant and follower of Punishment. It is usually manifest in a degree of reformation that is not inconsistent with continuity…

— Ambrose Bierce

Books that cannot bear examination, certainly ought not to be established as divine inspiration by penal laws.

— John Adams

“Our increasingly humanistic laws, courts and legislators are giving us a new morality. They tell us, as they strike down laws resting upon biblical…

— R.J. Rushdoony

“What you mean is, with God in the story there's a penalty," said Toby. "Yes," said Adam One. "There's a penalty without God in…

— Margaret Atwood

“Antinomianism and legalism conspire in forcing us to make a false choice: Is salvation a matter of God's forgiveness or is it moral transformation?…

— Michael S. Horton

“If it were not for the Church of Christ there would be nothing to restrain the criminal from evil-doing, no real chastisement for it…

— Anton Chekhov

In theology, the state of a luckless mortal prenatally damned. The doctrine of reprobation was taught by Calvin, whose joy in it was somewhat…

— Ambrose Bierce

The modern view of criminal justice, broadly, is that public concern with morality or expediency decrees expiation for the violation of a norm; this…

— Max Weber