Tim Carter is a Baptist minister and an Associate Research Fellow at the London School of Theology. His other writings include Paul and the Power of Sin: Redefining 'Beyond the Pale' (2002). A New Testament scholar, he finds academic research spiritually renewing, as well as a stimulant to his pastoral ministry.

This is an important book. After all, it deals with a matter that, for any Christian, is of eternal significance. And it does so with great care: it is well researched and persuasively argued. The end product is rich in detail and well worth reading. I commend it.

• AbbreviationsOne: IntroductionTwo: God Alone ForgivesThree: The Subject of AtonementFour: Prayer and SacrificeFive: Interceding for ForgivenessSix: Exile and the Forgiveness of SinsSeven: Labelling Sinners in LukeEight: 'No Forgiveness Without Bloodshed'Nine: Three Layers of ForgivenessTen: No Longer Dying to Forgive UsEleven: Too Hard to Forgive?Twelve: The Forgiveness of Sins and BaptismThirteen: A Baptism of RepentanceFourteen: Who Can Forgive Sins But God Alone?ConclusionBibliographyIndex of Ancient SourcesIndex of Subjects

Tim Carter is a Baptist minister and an Associate Research Fellow at the London School of Theology. His other writings include Paul and the Power of Sin: Redefining 'Beyond the Pale' (2002). A New Testament scholar, he finds academic research spiritually renewing, as well as a stimulant to his pastoral ministry.

This is an important book. After all, it deals with a matter that, for any Christian, is of eternal significance. And it does so with great care: it is well researched and persuasively argued. The end product is rich in detail and well worth reading. I commend it.

• AbbreviationsOne: IntroductionTwo: God Alone ForgivesThree: The Subject of AtonementFour: Prayer and SacrificeFive: Interceding for ForgivenessSix: Exile and the Forgiveness of SinsSeven: Labelling Sinners in LukeEight: 'No Forgiveness Without Bloodshed'Nine: Three Layers of ForgivenessTen: No Longer Dying to Forgive UsEleven: Too Hard to Forgive?Twelve: The Forgiveness of Sins and BaptismThirteen: A Baptism of RepentanceFourteen: Who Can Forgive Sins But God Alone?ConclusionBibliographyIndex of Ancient SourcesIndex of Subjects

Tim Carter is a Baptist minister and an Associate Research Fellow at the London School of Theology. His other writings include Paul and the Power of Sin: Redefining 'Beyond the Pale' (2002). A New Testament scholar, he finds academic research spiritually renewing, as well as a stimulant to his pastoral ministry.

This is an important book. After all, it deals with a matter that, for any Christian, is of eternal significance. And it does so with great care: it is well researched and persuasively argued. The end product is rich in detail and well worth reading. I commend it.

• AbbreviationsOne: IntroductionTwo: God Alone ForgivesThree: The Subject of AtonementFour: Prayer and SacrificeFive: Interceding for ForgivenessSix: Exile and the Forgiveness of SinsSeven: Labelling Sinners in LukeEight: 'No Forgiveness Without Bloodshed'Nine: Three Layers of ForgivenessTen: No Longer Dying to Forgive UsEleven: Too Hard to Forgive?Twelve: The Forgiveness of Sins and BaptismThirteen: A Baptism of RepentanceFourteen: Who Can Forgive Sins But God Alone?ConclusionBibliographyIndex of Ancient SourcesIndex of Subjects