Christ's work is a kind of deterrent to us, and a way of upholding the justice of God's divine government of the world.

The atonement chapter [from the book Saving Calvinism] shows how there are real riches in Reformed theology that most Christians today have no idea about.

In many ways the book [Saving Calvinism] is trying to argue for a more popular audience things I've said in some more scholarly works, namely, that the Reformed tradition is broader and more variegated than is often reported today, and that we need to recapture something of this in order that we don't end up unnecessarily narrow in our doctrine and in order to keep some perspective.

Now, don't get me wrong: I'm not rubbishing penal substitution. But there are other options that have been advocated by Reformed thinkers of the past.

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

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

[John] Calvin is often identified with his account of predestination. Yet that appears in the third book of his Institutes, not the first.