Brian H Edwards

The Divine Substiture
First published March 2006. 159 pages including general and Scripture indexes. Day One.
Co-authored with Dr Ian Shaw, Lecturer in Church History at the International Christian College, Glasgow.
Why did Christ have to die such a terrible death upon the cross? Was there no other way? Why was there need for a 'Divine substitute'?
This book explores the very heart of the Christian gospel: the belief that Christ died in the place of sinners, bearing their sin and guilt and the just and holy punishment that they deserved from God.
The doctrine of the atonement has become the subject of intense debate, and The Divine Substitute demonstrates that the understanding of the death of Christ as a work of penal substitution is the principal way – though not the only way – in which the Bible views the death of Christ, and that this has been taught at every period in the history of the church.
Here is a challenge to a deeper biblical and historical understanding of the atonement, and an encouragement to proclaim and live out the message of the Cross with renewed faithfulness and courage.
A vital contribution to recent controversies' -- Peter Maiden, International director, Operation Mobilisation and Chairman of the Keswick Convention
'A timely reminder ... that the theme of penal substitution has always been at the very heart of biblical Christianity' -- John Brand, UK Director of Africa Inland Mission International