ABSTRACT
This chapter aims to give a selection of some of the most representative writers. The satisfaction and penal substitutionary views still hold a strong place in the minds and hearts of evangelical and fundamentalist groups of believers. Moreover, many older believers among the more progressive sections of Christian thinkers cling to fragments of this ancient faith. Canon J. G. Simpson in his What is the Gospel? is unmistakeably objective and substitutionary in his view of the death of Christ. In the Cross God intervened to redeem men, and the Atonement is not something we can do, but which God alone can do. D. W. Simon advocates strongly the substitutionary view in his Redemption of Man. This is a clever book, with ripe scholarship and considerable insight into moral and spiritual problems. Simon discusses with acuteness the constitution of humanity, the relation of man to God, and the Old Testament sacrifices.
