As a former seminarian and current pastor and evangelist, I've recently sensed a more urgent need to teach Christians theology while also noticing how difficult it is to teach anyone almost anything of true substance in our distracted, screen-addicted culture. That is why I was excited to see my friend Channing Crisler write 40 Questions About the Atonement . This is a truly helpful book written in a format that is easy to read for the student, the scholar, and the everyday believer who only has 15 minutes to spare on their lunch break. It's conversational. It's also both biblical and practical, which I find refreshing as well as spiritually nourishing. I think this book is a gift to the church as well as the academy. -- Pastor, Evangelist, and author of Reborn and Stronger
On a single page, Channing Crisler references J. I. Packer and Mark Dever, Anselm of Canterbury, Georges Florovsky, Richard Hays, and 1 Corinthians—an approach indicative of the book as a whole: saturated in Scripture, sensitive to the history of the church, ecumenical in scope but evangelical in spirit, and attuned to the breadth, depth, and nuances of this great doctrine. For those who have questions about the death and resurrection of Jesus, this is a great resource capturing the spirit of a joyful, charitable, and confident evangelicalism. -- Associate Professor of Theology,
Torrey Honors College, Biola University
