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Автор: Maltby Geltson
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divine honor, divine justice, the moral law, and legal debts. Let us begin by considering Crisp’s five components of Edwards Jr’s theory of atonement:

      A—Necessity of Atonement

      Again, what we aim to show next is that not only did Edwards Jr (also represented in the tradition he inspired—Gelston) affirm penal non-substitution, but penal substitution with some elements of the governmental theory. Accordingly, we will see that retribution is fundamental for penal substitution and that rectoral justice is dependent upon it—retribution is necessary for the moral government of the world and God’s moral government fits into his providential control. And with this we transition into Crisp’s discussion of:

      B—Divine will, moral law, and atonement

      The questions that most concern us here is the necessity and nature of divine justice and, more than that, the divine motivation as they relate to the moral law and human transformation. These important distinctions are fundamental to both New England theology and contemporary models of justice and the atonement. For, the apparent de-coupling the rectoral and retributive justice in the thought Edwards Jr is a crucial aspect for our understanding the Edwardsian doctrine of atonement. However, we understand Gelston and the Edwardsian tradition to affirm a penal substitution of a modified sort. What we mean by this is not that rectoral justice is fundamental, in a non-voluntarist or voluntarist sense, but that retributive justice is fundamental to God’s moral governing of the world (within God’s providence). So, Christ as a penal substitute becomes central in God’s governance of human beings. Another question we raise, is whether rectoral justice or retributive justice are fundamentally a payment made to the moral law or is it a payment made to God himself? By differentiating within New England dogmatics, the atonement options are expanded for contemporary discussions. Rather provocatively, we think that within these discussions the atonement theories are a more complex, with several new vignettes than may have been thought to this point. For it seems that there are at least three models of the atonement at work in the Edwardsian tradition that have relevance to contemporary atonement. Let us move on to Crisp’s next point.

      C—Sin and Its Penal Consequences

      Several important questions emerge from this discussion that concern the relation