Oliver D. Crisp - Participation and Atonement: An Analytic and Constructive Account

T his book has been a long time in gestation. It began life in the University of Bristol in England around 2007, traveled across the Atlantic with me when I moved to Fuller Theological Seminary in Los Angeles in 2011, where it grew and developed, and then returned back to Great Britain via the University of Notre Dame in 2019, finally coming to land in the University of St. Andrews in Scotland, where the last chapters were added in the years 201921. In pursuing some of the issues that inform this work, I ended up writing an LLM thesis on punishment theory under the supervision of Dr. Elizabeth Shaw at the University of Aberdeen, though none of that work made it into the final volume. (It was a case of having to do the work to be clear that it did not need to be included in the volume.) All in all, it has been quite an adventure.

Perhaps unsurprisingly for a work this long in preparation, its composition has generated many debts. I gladly acknowledge them here. In particular, the following friends and colleagues gave of their time and expertise to assist me as I have worked on this project: Rev. Dr. James Arcadi, Professor Jc Beall, Dr. Kutter Callaway, Rev. Dr. Joshua Cockayne, Dr. Aaron Cotnair, Professor Ivor Davidson, Professor Gavin DCosta, Dr. Christopher Eberle, Dr. Joshua Farris, Professor Thomas Flint, Jesse Gentile, Dr. Tommy Givens, Professor Joel Green, Dr. S. Mark Hamilton, Professor Paul Helm, Dr. Daniel Hill, Rev. Dr. Stephen Holmes, Dr. Joseph Jedwab, Dr. Kimberley Kroll, Professor Anthony Lane, Professor Brian Leftow, Dr. Joanna Leidenhag, the late Professor Howard Marshall, Dr. Christa McKirland, Dr. Steven Nemes, Dr. Meghan Page, Professor Michael Rea, Dani Ross, Dr. Jonathan Rutledge, Rev. Dr. Bill Schweitzer, Professor Eleonore Stump, Professor Douglas Sweeney, Dr. Andrew Torrance, Dr. J. T. Turner, Dr. Jordan Wessling, Dr. Garry Williams, Professor Judith Wolfe, and Dr. Christopher Woznicki. I am sure I have overlooked some people who have helped along the way, and I can only apologize for any omissions I may have made.

Thanks are also due to the members of the Christian Doctrine Study Groups of the 2004 and 2006 Tyndale Fellowship Summer Conferences, and participants in research seminars in the Theological Faculty, University of Cambridge; the Joseph Butler Society, Oriel College, Oxford; St. Marys College, University of St. Andrews; Bristol Theological Society; and the Department of Theology at the University of Exeter. In each of these places I tried out material that has fed into the project. Support for the final phase of the work was given by the Center for Philosophy of Religion in the University of Notre Dame, where I was the Frederick J. Crosson Research Fellow for the second semester of the academic year 201819. My thanks to Professor Samuel Newlands and Professor Michael Rea as directors of the Center for this honor.

Earlier iterations of a number of the chapters have been published in journals or symposia as the book developed. Each of these chapters has been substantially revised for the present volume. Grateful acknowledgment is extended to the editors and publishers of the following essays for permission to use parts of this earlier work here (in order of publication):

• The Logic of Penal Substitution Revisited. In The Atonement Debate: Papers from the London Symposium on the Atonement , edited by Derek Tidball, David Hilborn, and Justin Thacker, 20827. Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 2008.
• Salvation and Atonement: On the Value and Necessity of the Work of Christ. In The God of Salvation: Soteriology in Theological Perspective , edited by Ivor J. Davidson and Murray A. Rae, 10520. Farnham: Ashgate, 2010. Reproduced with permission of the Licensor through PLSclear.
• Is Ransom Enough? Journal of Analytic Theology 3 (2015): 111.
• Methodological Issues in Approaching the Atonement. In T&T Clark Companion to the Atonement , edited by Adam Johnson, 31534. London: Bloomsbury, 2017. By kind permission of T&T Clark/Bloomsbury Publishing.
• A Moderate Reformed View and A Moderate Reformed Response. In Original Sin and the Fall: Five Views , edited by J. B. Stump and Chad Meister, 554 and 14049, respectively. Downers Grove, IL: IVP Academic, 2020. Used by permission of InterVarsity Press, Downers Grove, IL. www.ivpress.com.
• Moral Exemplarism and Atonement. Scottish Journal of Theology 73, no. 2 (2020): 13749.

Finally, but most importantly, thanks to my family: Claire, Liberty, Elliot, and Mathilda. Without you none of this would have seen the light of day.