A Defence of the Catholic Faith concerning the Satisfaction of Christ, against Faustus Socinus

Prefixed to Hugo Grotius’s study of the atonement is Frank Foster’s essay on the history of the Grotian theory and the significant influence it had on atonement theology. “Its orthodox affinities are exhibited by its survival and its final adoption in an orthodox Calvinistic system, and its firm establishment there, though not conclusive proof, is at least such evidence as history can give that it does afford, in spite of frequent denials of the critics, the true mean between the old Calvinistic and the Socinian theories, rejecting the errors of both and combining their truths in a consistent form.”

Grotius begins his study of the atonement by tracing the history of the doctrine and examining various controversies and theories around it. He then explores how God should be considered, whether it was unjust for Christ to be punished for our sins, whether God intended to punish Christ and the nature of satisfaction, the propitiation and reconciliation made by the death of Christ, and more.

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