The Doctrine of Atonement, The Reformation Period (2)

We have made the remark in preceding articles that Calvin, in his discussion of the doctrine of the atonement in his Institutes of the Christian Religion, does not emphasize the particular character of the suffering and death of Christ. This, however, does not mean that the truth of the particular character of the grace of God and the sovereign character of God's election and reprobation were not burning issues in the day and age of the Genevan reformer. They certainly were. We have made the...