What Is the Mystery of God?

The moral exemplar or influence theory. Peter abelard was the guy who developed this theory in the twelfth century. And he's trying to account for the love of god and for the impact of jesus's ministry on the lives of christians. Basically, the purpose and result of christ's death was to move human toward moral impr improvement are right action. So it denies that christ died to satisfy any principle of divine justice, and teaches instead that that jesus whole life, culminating in his death, was designed to lead people to repentance, to reconciliation with god and to transformation.