Ep. 57 Atonement Part 1, with Josh Farris and S. Mark Hamilton
The Reluctant Theologian Podcast
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What Is the Difference Between Atonement and Efficacy?
Efficacy is the assurance that once this fact cene is administered, it actually does what it's supposed to do. So efficacy is sometimes confused with efficiency. In some theories of the atonement, a subjective state, say, whether it be the intellect or the willor ora a disposition, or something like that, is suitably changed in a way that it brings the human in alignment with god's character or his purposes. But others have it that there is something sort of objective that's out of place, and that's missing in the moral universe that god has set up,. And others would say that god, in christ, satisfies some of metaphysical goal that's rather abstract.
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