Five Views on the Extent of the Atonement

Andrew Louth is professor emeritus of patristic and Byzantine studies at Durham University, England, and visiting professor of Eastern Orthodox theology at the Amsterdam Centre of Eastern Orthodox Theology (ACEOT), in the Faculty of Theology, the Free University, Amsterdam. He is also a priest of the Russian Orthodox Diocese of Sourozh (Moscow Patriarchate), serving the parish in Durham. His recent publications include Introducing Eastern Orthodox Theology, Greek East and Latin West: The Church AD 681-1071, Maximus the Confessor, and The Origins of the Christian Mystical Tradition.

Matthew Levering (PhD, Boston College) is Perry Family Foundation Professor of Theology at Mundelein Seminary, University of Saint Mary of the Lake, in Mundelein, Illinois. He previously taught at the University of Dayton. Levering is the author of numerous books, including Engaging the Doctrine of Revelation, The Proofs of God, The Theology of Augustine, and Ezra & Nehemiah in the Brazos Theological Commentary on the Bible, and is the coauthor of Holy People, Holy Land. He serves as coeditor of the journals Nova et Vetera and the International Journal of Systematic Theology and has served as Chair of the Board of the Academy of Catholic Theology since 2007.

Michael Horton (PhD) is the J. Gresham Machen Professor of Systematic Theology and Apologetics at Westminster Seminary California, founder and editor-in-chief of Sola Media, and host of the White Horse Inn, a weekly roundtable podcast on theology and culture. He is the author of more than thirty books, including Justification (2 Vols.) in Zondervan Academic’s New Studies in Dogmatics and The Christian Faith.

Fred Sanders (PhD, Graduate Theological Union) is professor of theology in the Torrey Honors College at Biola University in La Mirada, California. He is author of numerous books including The Triune God in the New Studies in Dogmatics series; The Deep Things of God: How the Trinity Changes Everything; Union with Christ and the Life of Faith; The Holy Spirit: An Introduction; and Fountain of Salvation: Trinity and Soteriology. He is coeditor of Jesus in Trinitarian Perspective: An Introductory Christology and Retrieving Eternal Generation. He is also the co-founder of the Los Angeles Theology Conference.

Tom Greggs (PhD, University of Cambridge, DLitt, University of Aberdeen) is the Director of the Center of Theological Inquiry in Princeton, New Jersey. He previously held the Marischal (1616) Chair of Divinity at the University of Aberdeen, Scotland. A Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, his publications include The Breadth of Salvation; A Dogmatic Ecclesiology, 3 volumes; Theology against Religion; and New Perspectives for Evangelical Theology.

Adam J. Johnson is an assistant professor of theology in the Torrey Honors Institute at Biola University. He focuses on the doctrine of the atonement, exploring the many ways in which the death and resurrection of Jesus Christ effect the reconciliation of all things to God. In addition to biblical, theological and historical studies of this doctrine, he enjoys exploring the contribution of literature and other fields to this topic. He is the author of God’s Being in Reconciliation and Atonement: A Guide for the Perplexed, and editor of the forthcoming T&T Clark Companion to the Atonement, all with T&T Clark.