Making Sense of the Atonement | Prof. Ross McCullough

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🗓️ 15 May 2023

⏱️ 78 minutes

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This talk was given at the University of Oregon on March 15, 2023. For more information please visit thomisticinstitute.org. About the speaker: Ross McCullough joined George Fox University as an assistant professor of theology and faculty fellow in the George Fox University Honors Program in 2018. He studied patristic theology at the University of Notre Dame before doing a doctorate at Yale University at the intersection of systematic theology and analytic philosophy of religion. Dr. McCullough's first book, Freedom and Sin: Evil in a World Created by God (Eerdmans, 2022) reconciles traditional Christian commitments to, on the one hand, God causing all that is and, on the other, God in no way being responsible for sin. He also has academic publications on the doctrine of hell, the Eucharist, the hermeneutics of Scripture, and liberation theology. His popular articles have appeared in First Things, Commonweal, and America Magazine, among other venues. Dr. McCullough lives with his wife and four children across the street from St. Peter parish in Newberg, where he is on the pastoral council and leads RCIA.

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0:30.5	So, the atonement. The atonement is a kind of odd doctrine in Christianity,
0:37.9	in Catholicism in particular, for one reason,
0:40.3	which is that many of the other central doctrines
0:43.5	of the faith have dogmatic definitions around them,
0:48.3	like hedging them around, saying,
0:50.6	you sort of have to believe these things about it.
0:53.0	You can't believe those things.
0:54.8	So there's the Trinity.
0:56.3	There's a particular model of the Trinity.
0:58.4	There's different ways of understanding that model,
1:00.2	but there's a particular model that's endorsed by the early councils of the church.
1:04.1	And other models that are rejected.
1:07.5	That's true for the person of Christ as well, right?
1:09.6	Christ is one person, two natures. He has two
1:12.9	wills, there's two energies. So there's all these sort of dogmatic language about what you have
1:17.3	to believe about Christ, the person of Christ, in order to be a Christian. You don't get a similar
1:22.8	kind of thing with the atonement, with the work of Christ. What does Christ do for us?
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