PIERCED FOR OUR TRANSGRESSIONS
Rediscovering the glory of penal substitution
By Steve Jeffery, Mike Ovey, Andrew Sach. IVP. 374 pages. £16.99
ISBN 978-1-84474-178-6
Ever since Steve Chalke supported the provocative criticism of penal substitution as ‘a form of cosmic child abuse’ there have been numerous replies in support of a doctrine vital to the Protestant Reformers and so precious to evangelical believers of the past.
This book is special in helping ordinary Christians as well as pastors and scholars to get to grips with the modern debate concerning the teaching which states ‘that God gave himself in the person of his Son to suffer instead of us the death, punishment and curse due to fallen humanity as the penalty for sin’.
