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Published on: 8/9/2007
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Barry C. Joslin, who serves as assistant professor of Christian theology at Boyce College, the undergraduate school of Southern Seminary, looks at the atonement of Christ in the New Testament book of Hebrews.Joslin surveys the doctrine of atonement in the Old Testament and argues that substitutionary atonement as seen in the animal sacrifices in Leviticus find their New Covenant fulfillment in the death of Christ.
"What emerges from Hebrews," he writes, is the picture of Jesus Christ, the New Covenant mediator, whose blood inaugurated the promised eternal New Covenant and cleansed his people from the impurity of their sins, granting divine forgiveness, and thereby placating the all-consuming fire of the righteous wrath of God."