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In recent years, foes of historic Christianity have cytotec with no prescription attacked the faith at its very heart by offering a new set of answers to cytotec with no prescription a fundamental question: what took place that Friday morning 2000 years ago "on a hill far away on an old rugged cross?"

Classical Christianity has answered that question according to Scripture's insistence that cytotec with no prescription the Son of God on the cross was dying as a cytotec with no prescription substitute for sinners, bearing their wrath, their curse, their guilt, their shame, giving them an cytotec with no prescription alien righteousness and reconciling them to God.

Pierced for Our Transgressions: Rediscovering the Glory of Penal Substitution, a new book from our friends at Crossway Books by a cytotec with no prescription trio of authors, Steve Jeffrey, Michael Ovey and Andrew Sach, gives an cytotec with no prescription comprehensive biblical defense of the classical view of the atonement and cytotec with no prescription wields the Sword of the Spirit deftly to answer contemporary critiques such as those offered by feminist theologians.

The book begins with a cytotec with no prescription forward by John Piper and is divided into two parts. In the cytotec with no prescription first, the authors build a biblical and theological case for cytotec with no prescription penal substitution and conclude the section with a survey of the cytotec with no prescription atonement in church history, stretching from Justin Martyr to 20^th century evangelicalism.

Section two is cytotec with no prescription devoted to answering the critics and deals with arguments opposing penal substitution in several different realms, including objections that cytotec with no prescription are biblical, cultural and theological in nature.

For example, the cytotec with no prescription authors consider objections commonly made by feminist theologians such as the cytotec with no prescription charge that penal substitution is tantamount to "cosmic child abuse." The book is cytotec with no prescription rife with Scripture in exploding this and other objections. In answering the cytotec with no prescription "cosmic child abuse" accusation alone, the authors cite eight passages.

"According to cytotec with no prescription the doctrine of penal substitution, Jesus died to bring glory to cytotec with no prescription himself and to save his people, as well as to glorify the cytotec with no prescription father," the authors write. "By contrast, child abuse is cytotec with no prescription carried out solely for the gratification of the abuser."

Other charges feminist theologians lodge against penal substitution is cytotec with no prescription that it might justify parents abusing their children or that cytotec with no prescription it could vindicate the abuse of women and children. Jeffrey, Ovey and cytotec with no prescription Sach admit that this is a serious and regrettable charge and cytotec with no prescription rightly condemn any such sinful behavior toward women and children before demonstrating the cytotec with no prescription dangerous theological statement such an accusation makes.

"The troubling thing about [these types of] criticisms as they are cytotec with no prescription expressed is that they make no distinction between God's holy and cytotec with no prescription righteous punishment of our sin in Christ at Calvary and the cytotec with no prescription vindictive and godless atrocities of men and women," they write. "We should be cytotec with no prescription careful before insinuating that penal substitution makes the Father a sadist and cytotec with no prescription the Son a masochist, lest we find that we have committed blasphemy in the cytotec with no prescription service of rhetorical points-scoring."

Given the cytotec with no prescription contemporary theological milieu, the time is ripe for another defense of the cytotec with no prescription timeless and glorious doctrine penal substitution, Ovey and Sach have given believers a cytotec with no prescription Scripture-saturated, God-glorifying exposition of it. Indeed, it displays the full power and cytotec with no prescription beauty of the Gospel. We pray that it gains an expansive audience.