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Ken Pulliam

The Atonement in Clint Eastwood’s “Gran Torino”

July 18, 2014 by Randal

A few years ago I was having an email exchange with atheist Ken Pulliam about his speciality, the atonement. Ken was a rare individual who had no antipathy toward the evangelical Christianity he’d left behind. He had none of the condescension one often finds in the atheistic blogosphere (and, it must be said, the Christian blogosphere). […]

Filed Under: The Tentative Apologist Tagged With: atonement, Clint Eastwood, Girardean theory, Gran Torino, Ken Pulliam, theology

The End of Christianity? A Skeptical Review (Part 8)

August 18, 2011 by Randal

In chapter 7 of The End of Christianity Ken Pulliam argues for “The Absurdity of the Atonement”. In fact, his essay is focused not on the atonement per se but rather on a penal substitutionary theory of atonement (henceforth PST). This is a crucial distinction to which I shall return. However, before continuing let me […]

Filed Under: The Tentative Apologist Tagged With: atonement, imputation, Ken Pulliam, penal substitution, The End of Christianity

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