Forgiveness and Law, Grounded in Principles Interpreted by Human Analogies

by Horace Bushnell

Excerpt from Forgiveness and Law, Grounded in Principles Interpreted by Human Analogies
Proposing a discontinuance of the last half - Parts III and IV - of my former treatise entitled The Vicarious Sacrifice, this present volume is put forth to occupy the place made vacant. The design is, at some future time, to put the former first half and this new last half together, and recompose the treatise, in a form to more satisfactorily represent what I would like to say of the whole subject. What I have taken to be "the whole subject" comprehends more, it will be remembered, than what is included topically in our theology under the head of atonement; viz., another, not less weighty part, relating to Christ as a power on character. This other part, as set forth in the first half of my former treatise, I retain. But the latter half, discontinued and now to be supplied, covers exactly all that has been heretofore and commonly taken as being the Atonement.

264 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1874

About the author

Horace Bushnell (April 14, 1802 – February 17, 1876) was an American Congregational minister and theologian.