The Doctrine of the Atonement According to the Apostles | George Smeaton
George Smeaton. The Doctrine of the Atonement According to the Apostles. Hendrickson, 1988. 548 pp.
This book is the sequel to his former book The Doctrine of the Atonement According to Christ—both of which form an extensive two volume biblical theology of the atonement. In the first volume Smeaton deals with nearly every passage in the Gospels that refers to the death of Christ. In this second volume he handles the majority of the passages in the rest of the NT. Being a biblical theology of the atonement, it is more academic in nature and will not be light reading for the average layman. However, this kind of careful, contextual analysis will profit any reader who is willing to take the time necessary to wade through the discussion. With the goal of coming to a comprehensive understanding of the atonement, Smeaton sees a “biblico-historical” approach as absolutely essential and to be preferred to the “artificial construction [of] which systematic theology” often is guilty (v).
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