Five Views on the Extent of the Atonement

For whom did Christ die? Who may be saved? are questions of perennial interest and importance for the Christian faith. In a familiar Counterpoints format, this book explores the question of the extent of Christ's atonement, going beyond simple Reformed vs. non-Reformed understandings. This volume elevates the conversation to a broader plane, including contributors who represent the breadth of Christian tradition:

• Eastern Orthodox: Andrew Louth
• Roman Catholic: Matthew Levering
• Traditional Reformed: Michael Horton
• Wesleyan: Fred Sanders
• Barthian Universalism: Tom Greggs

This book serves not only as a single-volume resource for engaging the views on the extent of the atonement but also as a catalyst for understanding and advancing a balanced approach to this core Christian doctrine. The Counterpoints series provides a forum for comparison and critique of different views on issues important to Christians. Counterpoints books address two categories: Church Life and Bible and Theology. Complete your library with other books in the Counterpoints series.

Andrew Louth is professor emeritus of patristic and Byzantine studies at Durham University, England, and visiting professor of Eastern Orthodox theology at the Amsterdam Centre of Eastern Orthodox Theology (ACEOT), in the Faculty of Theology, the Free University, Amsterdam. He is also a priest of the Russian Orthodox Diocese of Sourozh (Moscow Patriarchate), serving the parish in Durham. His recent publications include Introducing Eastern Orthodox Theology, Greek East and Latin West: The Church AD 681-1071, Maximus the Confessor, and The Origins of the Christian Mystical Tradition.

Matthew Levering (PhD, Boston College) is Perry Family Foundation Professor of Theology at Mundelein Seminary, University of Saint Mary of the Lake, in Mundelein, Illinois. He previously taught at the University of Dayton. Levering is the author of numerous books, including Engaging the Doctrine of Revelation, The Proofs of God, The Theology of Augustine, and Ezra & Nehemiah in the Brazos Theological Commentary on the Bible, and is the coauthor of Holy People, Holy Land. He serves as coeditor of the journals Nova et Vetera and the International Journal of Systematic Theology and has served as Chair of the Board of the Academy of Catholic Theology since 2007.

Michael Horton (PhD) is the J. Gresham Machen Professor of Systematic Theology and Apologetics at Westminster Seminary California, founder and editor-in-chief of Sola Media, and host of the White Horse Inn, a weekly roundtable podcast on theology and culture. He is the author of more than thirty books, including Justification (2 Vols.) in Zondervan Academic’s New Studies in Dogmatics and The Christian Faith.

Fred Sanders?(PhD, Graduate Theological Union) is professor of theology in the Torrey Honors College at Biola University in La Mirada, California. He is author of numerous books including?The Triune God?in the New Studies in Dogmatics series;?The Deep Things of God: How the Trinity Changes Everything;?Union with Christ and the Life of Faith;?The Holy Spirit: An Introduction; and Fountain of Salvation: Trinity and Soteriology. He is coeditor of?Jesus in Trinitarian Perspective: An Introductory Christology?and?Retrieving Eternal Generation. He is also the co-founder of the Los Angeles Theology Conference. 

Tom Greggs is Chair in Historical and Doctrinal Theology at the University of Aberdeen, having previously been Professor of Systematic Theology at the University of Chester. His publications include Theology against Religion (T&T Clark); Barth, Origen, and Universal Salvation (OUP); New Perspectives for Evangelical Theology (Routledge); and The Vocation of Theology Today (Cascade). Tom sits on the Faith and Order Commission of the World Council of Churches, and also holds the position of Honorary Professor of Theology at St Mellitus College, London.