Excerpt from Historic Theories of Atonement: With Comments The opening chapter is meant to announce a point of view, unsupported here by argument. Ultimately, as I believe, every Christian mind must accept a similar point of view, combining as it does the idealism of Christianity, in virtue of which Christians confess that the world's salvation has not to be gained by human effort in days to come, but to be received from God. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.