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The Nature of Atonement and Its Soteriological Implications in Arminian Theology
The Calvinist theologian Robert L. Reymond is representative of most Calvinists when he says that the Arminian theory of atonement is the governmental theory. He remarks that the governmental theory “denies that Christ’s death was intended to pay the penalty for sin” and claims that its “germinal teachings are in Arminius.”1 This opinion, however, is not unique to Calvinists. The Wesleyan scholar James K. Grider, in his article on “Arminianism” in the Evangelical Dictionary ofTheology says, “A spillover from Calvinism into Arminianism has occurred in recent decades. Thus, many Arminians whose theology is not very precise say that Christ paid the penalty for our sins. Yet such a view is foreign to Arminianism.”
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