A System of Christian Doctrine Author:Isaak August Dorner Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. Excerpt from book: Section 3righteousness, after the manner of the mystic theory, which sees in Christ's objective righteousness our expiatory substitute. But further, when he specially finds in Christ's sufferings a... more »nd death a manifestation of God's love powerful enough to kindle responsive love in us, the question is reasonable, how far a manifestation of love ought to be found in Christ's sufferings and death if no expiatory and sub- stitutionary meaning belongs to them (a question doubly warranted in relation to Ritschl's own theory, since he neither favours the mystic view nor regards an expiation as necessary). Thus Abelard's moral theory only seems to gain intrinsic strength and consistency on the supposition that he has not framed it in opposition to the expiation offered to justice, but presupposes the latter. In this way, certainly, the form of Abelard's theory becomes essentially different from Hitschi's account of it, since it is then similar to the views held by many Church-teachers before him, who ascribe to Christ's sufferings and death, along with the expiation of justice, the awakening of responsive love. 2. textit{The Evangelical Doctrine of Atonement. § 11G. In this dogma also the Reformation proves itself to be the conclusion of an old and the beginning of a new age. Its advances in Ponerology and Christology contributed to this result, but especially the Evangelical textit{prineiple of faith, which strove to realize to itself in Christ's work the objective foundation of the peace of conscience it had gained. That from which deliverance is necessary is no longer considered as something merely external to man and objective, as the dominion of Satan and the power of death, or as an alien inheritance, but as personal guilt which subjects to desert of punishment.1 On this account it is not merely freedom from pun...« less