HOLY WEEK (LENT 2024) - DAY 38 - GOOD FRIDAY = the BEST FRIDAY

The earliest Christians wrote a LOT about the atoning sacrifice of Christ on the Cross. They emphasized an aspect of the atonement that many conservative Protestant Evangelicals often overlook, which is largely due to the effect of the work of the Roman Catholic Archbishop of Canterbury named Anselm (1033-1109).

If there was one word, one concept that captured the theological minds of the earliest Christian theologians and apologists it was the word, RANSOM.

I don't entirely know how to disentangle the "pollution" that Anselm mixed into Western Christian thinking about the atonement. The Eastern and Oriental Orthodox Christians, as well as the Church of the East do NOT incorporate the concepts that Anselm INTRODUCED into Western Christianity - both Roman Catholic and Protestant.

I know that early Christian writers such as Tertullian wrote about the atonement in terms of penal substitution, but he doesn't go nearly as far as Anselm his Satisfaction Theory of the atonement. 

In fact, the Earliest Christians had a far more comprehensive theory/concept of the atonement that affected far more than mankind's dilemma sometimes called the Christus Victor view.

Anyway, my thoughts about Good Friday are here:

LINK

https://keto4christians.wordpress.com/2024/03/29/holy-week-lent-2024-day-39-good-friday/