Table of contents : Acknowledgments Introduction 1. Approaching the Atonement 2. Several Patristic Accounts of Atonement 3. The Ransom Account of Atonement 4. The Satisfaction Doctrine of Atonement 5. Moral Exemplarism and Atonement 6. Penal Substitutionary Atonement 7. Governmental and Vicarious Penitence Doctrines of Atonement 8. The Problem of Atoning Violence 9. Mashup and Kaleidoscopic Accounts of Atonement 10. Participation and Atonement Glossary of Terms Bibliography General Index Scripture Index