Here is the interesting twist:[McLeod] Campbell came to his views through reading Jonathan Edwards who suggested at one point in his ruminations on the atonement that Christ could have offered up a perfect act of penitence instead of punishment, and that this would have been an acceptable offering suitable to remit our sinfulness.

God shows us in Christ what he would have to do if he were to punish us for our sins.

One of the things we in the Reformed tradition are very good at is writing doctrinal theology!

I think everyone who has an interest in Reformed theology, or just in Christian theology more generally, should read John Calvin Institutes.

[Jonathan] Edwards definitely shows up in the book [Saving Calvinism]. He appears as one of the interlocutors in the chapter on free will, the other being the Southern Presbyterian theologian John Girardeau.

We may think that our tradition is exactly the same as it has always been, but that is an illusion.

[Jonathan Edwards] he has to be engaged with on this issue if you're writing about Calvinism as I am in this book.