- Atonement in Lutheran Orthodoxy: Johannes Quenstedt
- Atonement in Lutheran Orthodoxy: Baier-Walther
- Atonement in Lutheran Orthodoxy: Abraham Calov
"Johannes Quenstedt's De Officio Christi is an antidote to error about atonement in Lutheran circles. Lutheran Orthodoxy teaches that an indispensable part of atonement is vicarious satisfaction. Adversaries [today] deny vicarious satisfaction. Their errors existed already in Quenstedt's time.... It is time again to amplify Quensteadt's presentation of the atonement. Besides republishing [Robert] Preus' commentary on Quenstedt's De Officio Christi (Sec. 1. Th. 14 to 44), we have commissioned the first translation of it in English."
Contributed the biographical introduction
The meaning of “atonement” has been a topic of much debate in recent decades. A large number of theologians have dismissed the Reformation view as misguided and even barbaric. This book adds the voice of a Lutheran luminary from the period following the Reformation, Johannes Quenstedt, offering a contradictory view. The slender volume includes relevant sections from his greatest theological work, “Systema,” coupled with a commentary on it by the late Robert Preus, a forward by Burnell F. Eckardt, Jr. and a biographical essay by Jack D. Kilcrease....
Quenstedt’s sections consist of an exegesis of practically every verse in the Bible related to the vicarious substitution of Jesus Christ for us, arranged under an outline structure. With the skills of an exegete and a theologian, he explains the importance of vicarious substitution: "If God were able to condone man’s crime without satisfaction and His infinite righteousness could be preserved, the great cost of the only Son would not have been needed."
Translation by Matthew Carver
Comments by Robert D. Preus
Foreword by Burnell F. Eckardt, Jr.
Biographical Introduction by Jack D. Kilcrease