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Conference on the cross

Readers will be aware that penal substitution — that Jesus died in the place of his people and bore the penalty for their sins — has become a controversial doctrine within certain sectors of British evangelicalism.

Matthew Mason

Most recently, Steve Chalke has dismissed the doctrine in a book and a series of articles, even caricaturing it as ‘a form of cosmic child abuse’.