That Christ died for our sins is at the heart of of the Christian faith: “For I delivered unto you first of all, which I also received: how that Christ died for our sins, according to the scriptures” (1 Cor 15:3). But what does it mean that He died for our sins? How did Christ’s death save and redeem us? Prof. Michael Waldstein and Professor Timothy Kelly join the editors to contemplate the mysteries of salvation.

The theme of today’s episode is closely linked to our project at The Josias, as we write in our About page, “A truly Catholic account of politics cannot be understood except with reference to the whole perennial wisdom of practical and speculative philosophy, and to the integral tradition of Sacred Theology.” Today we contemplate the “vertiginous heights” of Sacred Theology.

Bibliography

St. Anselm of Cantebury, Cur Deus Homo.
St. Thomas Aquinas, Summa Theologiae, IIIa Q 48.
Norbert Hoffmann, “Atonement and the Ontological Coherence Between the Cross and the Trinity,” in: Toward a Civilization of Love, trans. Erasmo Leivo (San Francisco: Ignatius Press, 1985) 213-66.
Edmund Waldstein, O.Cist., Desire, Deicide, and Atonement: René Girard and St. Thomas Aquinas, Sancrucensis (2016).
Michael Maria Waldstein, Harmony and the Scriptures: Lenten Reflections on Harnoncourt and Bach, First Things (Web Exclusive, 2017).

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