Forgiveness of Sins: Christus Victor
We’ve been looking at different models of the atonement over the last couple weeks. This week we finish our discussion by turning our attention to one of the most prominent ways the New Testament describes Christ’s work in reconciling the world to himself: Christus Victor.
The lens of Christus Victor—Latin for Christ the victorious king—emphasizes Christ’s work in overcoming the Powers of Sin, Death, and Satan. Typically penal substitutionary models of the atonement only consider two actors in the drama of salvation: God and humanity. Christus Victor shows that there are actually three…
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