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Evangelical Alliance Statement on the Atonement Published
Only just noticed this, but on the 27 February the Board of the UK Evangelical Alliance issued a statement on the Atonement. The statement was issued as a subsequence of the joint Evangelical Alliance/London School of Theology Symposium on the Atonement held at the London School of Theology from 6-8 July 2005. The symposium was called as a result of the furore that surrounded the publishing of The Lost Message of Jesus by Steve Chalke and Alan Mann.
The EA Board's statment explicitly asserts that penal substitution is affirmed in the EA Basis of Faith and requires that members of the Alliance 'should assent to the Basis of Faith annually, and should do so with integrity.'
Such a draconian demand may cause some current members of the Alliance with concerns about the centrality and significance of penal substitution to question whether they can indeed assent to the Basis of Faith.
The full text of the Evangelical Alliance UK) Board Statement 27/02/2006 is as follows:
- Unanimously reaffirms the Alliance Basis of Faith, as revised and adopted in September 2005.
- Notes that the Basis defines 'all people' to have been 'corrupted by sin', that this sin 'incurs divine wrath and judgement', and that on the cross Jesus sacrificially atoned for sin by 'dying in our place' and 'paying the price' of such sin.
- Understands these descriptions of Jesus' death to affirm penal substitutionary atonement.
- Accepts that the Bible speaks of the cross in various other ways in addition to, but not at the expense of, penal substitutionary atonement;
- Emphasises that other models of atonement are endorsed in the Basis of Faith alongside penal substitution, including Christus Victor, Moral Influence and Recapitulation, but that these should be seen as complementing rather than negating penal substitution.
- Is committed to ensuring that the Basis of Faith remains determinative of the Alliance's doctrine and practice.
- Underlines the requirement that Board, Council, permanent staff and all members of the Alliance should assent to the Basis of Faith annually, and should do so with integrity.
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