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No Plato, No Scripture? | Hans Boersma

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Irenaeus's Recapitulation Atonement

Christian Platonism originates in the first real theologian in the Christian tradition, Saint-Arnaeus. He's like the master of recapitulation atonement, that our salvation consists in a re-head shipping by Christ and a participation in his new remade humanity. And so in himself, he includes all of humanity and renews it. According to Irenaeus, just as Adam was, just as the first Adam was tempted,. So the second Adam, Jesus Christ was tempted. But Jesus Christ does not fall in the face of satanic temptation. He is faithful where Adam had been unfaithful. Again, it has to do with body language corporals. He

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