THE WONDROUS CROSS
Atonement and penal substitution in the Bible and history
By Stephen R. Holmes. Paternoster. 130 pages. £9.99
ISBN 978-1-84227-541-2
When we sing (or used to sing) ‘Tell me the old, old story’, we know that ‘story’ is shorthand for a narrative of what Jesus did for us on the cross, and why, and how it benefits us.
Dr. Holmes (Baptist minister and lecturer in theology at St. Andrews) writes that the New Testament has many (consistent, complementary) such ‘stories’, of which penal substitution is one.
