Were the Reformers Heretics? Penal Substitutionary Atonement and “THE” Reformation View: Carl Mosser
Channel: The Kirkwood Center
Date: 2024-03-02

Since the mid 1990’s, there has been a growing trend in conservative Protestant churches, especially among the “Young, Restless and Reformed” crowed, to assume that the only view of Atonement the early Reformers believed in was that of Penal Substitutionary Atonement, or some very narrow version of it. In this Podcast, theologian Carl Mosser, PhD St. Andrews University, discusses this anachronistic idea, and why atonement theories that emphasize the concept of “satisfaction” rather than retribution are just as Protestant, Reformational and Orthodox as PSA. 

Carl Mosser (PhD, University of St. Andrews) is the pastor of House of God Lutheran Church in Highland, California. He previously served as Professor of Christian Theology at Gateway Seminary, Visiting Research Professor and Analytic Theology Fellow at the University of Notre Dame, and Associate Professor of Biblical Studies at Eastern University.

 
Carl’s Articles on The Classic Conception of Atonement: https://www.academia.edu/70194642/Recovering_the_Classic_Concept_of_Satisfaction_Parts_1_3_


Chapters:
00:00 - 6:05 Carl Mosser Introduction
06:05 - 14:55 A Brief History of “The Atonement Wars” 
14:56 - 22:18 The Centrality and Importance of the Atonement 
22:19 - 32:45 The History of “Penalty” in Atonement Theory 
32:46 - 37:27 What is “Satisfaction?” 
37:28 - 40:50 What is “Propitiation?“
40:51 - 53:45 Punishment of Sin and the Wrath of God
53:46 - 57:08 How Christ Satisfies For All of Sin
57:09 - 1:06:01 Satisfaction, Hell and The First and Second Deaths
1:06:02 - 1:12:15 Whose Justice, Whose Wrath?
1:12:16 - 1:21:02 Penal Substitutionary Atonement and Reformation Orthodoxy