Sophia Forum

Posted by: Azusa Pacific Seminary

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Thursday, September 13, 2018 | 1:00 P.M. - 3:00 P.M.

IS CHRIST’S PENAL SUBSTITUTION INCOHERENT?

The doctrine of Christ’s penal substitution holds that Christ bore the suffering that we deserved as the punishment for our sins, thereby satisfying the demands of divine justice and winning our pardon. Critics have charged that such a doctrine of the atonement is philosophically and theologically incoherent. These allegations are subjected to critical scrutiny.

Friday, September 14, 2018 | 3:00 P.M. - 5:00 P.M.

IS CHRIST’S PENAL SUBSTITUTION UNJUST?

The most common objection to Christ’s penal substitution is that it is immoral to punish an innocent person for another person’s sins. It is shown that this seemingly powerful objection is not so powerful as it first appears.

Speaker: William Lane Craig, PhD

Research Professor of Philosophy at Talbot School of Theology and Professor of Philosophy at Houston Baptist University. Dr. Craig has authored or edited over thirty books, including The Kalam Cosmological Argument; Assessing the New Testament Evidence for the Historicity of the Resurrection of Jesus, and Divine Foreknowledge and Human Freedom. In 2016, Dr. Craig was named by The Best Schools as one of the fifty most influential living philosophers.

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