How Does Christ Save Us? Making Sense of the Atonement | Prof. Ross McCullough 1d3430

Prof. Ross McCullough systematically explores the major models of the atonement-including...

Prof. Ross McCullough systematically explores the major models of the atonement-including Christus Victor, ransom theory, and divinization-showing how each interprets Christ’s saving work and how Aquinas’s distinctions can help organize these diverse approaches into a coherent theological architecture.


This lecture was given on October 16th, 2023, at University of Texas, Austin.


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About the Speaker:


Ross McCullough is an assistant professor of theology at George Fox University and faculty fellow in the George Fox University Honors Program. He has academic publications on the doctrine of hell, the Eucharist, the hermeneutics of Scripture, and liberation theology. Dr. McCullough's first book, Freedom and Sin: Evil in a World Created by God reconciles traditional Christian commitments to, on the one hand, God causing all that is and, on the other, God in no way being responsible for sin. Dr. McCullough lives with his wife and four children in Newberg, Oregon.


Keywords: Atonement Models, Christus Victor, Divinization, Historical Theology, over Typology, Ransom Theory, Salvation in Christianity, Systematic Theology

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