Abstract
Abstract Recent discussions of the history of soteriology argue that two distinct understandings of redemption (or atonement) emerged in the twelfth century: Anselm of Canterbury’s theory of satisfaction and Peter Abelard’s exemplarism. Anselm’s Cur Deus Homo? jettisoned, we are told, the older idea that Christ saved humankind by tricking the devil or ransoming man from his power, and argued instead that Christ satisfies and redeems the debt man owes to God because of human disobedience.
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