THE ATONEMENT CONTROVERSY:
In Welsh Theological Literature
and Debate 1707-1841
By Owen Thomas (translated by John Aaron)
Banner of Truth. 391 pages. £18.95
ISBN 0 85151 816 8
Limited atonement occasionally surfaces like a whale in the deep ocean of theology, inducing either wonder or concern. Is the L of the Calvinist TULIP a wild doctrinal beast to be hunted down and made extinct, or is it a marvellous doctrine of God's creation, though difficult to fully grasp hold of and tame?
In the early 19th century, the doctrine of limited atonement produced theological waves in Wales that threatened to swamp the Calvinist churches. This book describes that historical controversy. It is a translation from Welsh of part of Owen Thomas's biography of the influential Calvinistic-Methodist preacher, John Jones of Talsarn, and separately considers the controversies between Arminians and Calvinists (1707-1831), amongst Calvinists (1811-41), and within Calvinistic Methodism (1814-41).
