Theological Journal – March 3 (Lent 2020) Torrance Tuesday – Atonement We will be shepherded toward the Cross this Lent by various selections of Torrance’s teaching on Christ’s atoning death in its various aspects. “I believe that it is concentration upon the vicarious humanity of Christ in the incarnation and atonement, in death and resurrection, that is particularly important for us today. It is curious that evangelicals often link the substitutionary act of Christ only with his death, and not with his incarnate person and life . . . The thereby undermine the radical nature of substitution, what the New Testament calls katallage , Christ in our place and Christ for us in every respect. Substitution understood in this radical way means that Christ takes our place in all our human life and activity before God, even in our believing, praying, and worshipping of God, for he has yoked himself to us in such a profound way that he stands in for us and upholds us at every point ...
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