Skip to content
Orthodox Servant
  • Recent Posts
  • Audio Agpeya
  • About Me

Category: Salvation

He Took What is Ours and Gave Us What is His

January 25, 2020 Maged M 5 Comments

Jeremiah 33:16 ‘In those days Judah will be saved and Jerusalem will dwell in safety; and this is the name…

Continue Reading →

Posted in: Patristics, Salvation Filed under: Church Fathers, Great Exchange, Justification, Penal Substitution, Theories of atonement

Additional Quotes by the Fathers on the Fall and Redemption

January 17, 2020 Maged M 2 Comments

St. Basil the Great St. Basil – Exegetic Homilies, Homily on Psalm 48 Every captive has need of ransoms for…

Continue Reading →

Posted in: Patristics, Salvation Filed under: atonement, Christus Victor, Cyril of Alexandria, Mercy and Justice, Penal Substitution, Penal Substitution and Church Fathers, Theories of atonement

How the Redemption of Mankind was Accomplished

March 7, 2019 Maged M Leave a comment

By H.H. Pope Shenouda Did the Lord Christ die alone instead of us and redeem us? Or did we die…

Continue Reading →

Posted in: Salvation Filed under: atonement, H.H. Pope Shenouda, redemption

H.H. Pope Tawadros on Atonement

October 16, 2018 Maged M Leave a comment

When man fell he struggled with two demands: Justice demanded fulfillment of the sentence in its entirety without easing it…

Continue Reading →

Posted in: Salvation

H.H. Pope Shenouda on Atonement

September 7, 2018 Maged M Leave a comment

If Christ did not bear the punishment for us, what is the meaning of redemption then?! If there was no…

Continue Reading →

Posted in: Patristics, Salvation Filed under: atonement, Christus Victor, Incarnation of the Word, Mercy and Justice, Penal Substitution and Church Fathers, Penal Substitution and Coptic Church, Theories of atonement

Atonement in “On the Incarnation of the Word”

July 30, 2018 Maged M 2 Comments

Some argue that St. Athanasius never explained redemption in terms of satisfaction of a “debt”, but only of God’s healing…

Continue Reading →

Posted in: Patristics, Salvation Filed under: On the Incarnation of the Word, Penal Substitution, Penal Substitution and Church Fathers, St. Athanasius, Substitutionary Atonement, Theories of atonement

View of Atonement in the Coptic Orthodox Church

April 19, 2018 Maged M Leave a comment

Note: This is not a comprehensive explanation of the doctrine of salvation in the Coptic Church, but is a sample…

Continue Reading →

Posted in: Patristics, Salvation

Questions & Answers on Atonement

March 5, 2018 Maged M Leave a comment

The God of the Old Testament is the same God of the New. To deny God’s condemnation for sin and…

Continue Reading →

Posted in: Patristics, Salvation Filed under: atonement, Christus Victor, Christus Victor vs. Penal Substitution, Church Fathers, Mercy and Justice, Orthodox Atonement, Penal Substitution, Penal Substitution and Church Fathers, Substitutionary Atonement, Theories of atonement

Bible Verses on Atonement

February 15, 2018 Maged M Leave a comment

Genesis 3:21 The LORD God made garments of skin for Adam and his wife and clothed them. Leviticus 4: 33-35 (Septuagint)…

Continue Reading →

Posted in: Salvation

Atonement in the Early Church (Athanasius & Cyril of Alexandria)

December 26, 2017 Maged M 2 Comments

Christus Victor is a new model of atonement that some argue dates back to the early church. The model emphasizes…

Continue Reading →

Posted in: Patristics, Salvation

Post navigation

Page 1 of 2
1 2 Next →

Recent Posts

  • Atonement in the Early Church
  • Origin of the Feast of Nativity
  • Is God “Essence and Energies”?
  • He Took What is Ours and Gave Us What is His
  • Additional Quotes by the Fathers on the Fall and Redemption
  • Authority of Scripture & Scripture Canon
  • Isaac the Syrian
  • Protected: Group Moderation Process
  • Deification
  • Christology
Copyright © 2022 Orthodox Servant