The Forgotten Cross

by Lee Gatiss

This book of expositions by Lee Gatiss is an important reminder that, in our warranted zeal for the truth of penal substitution, we must not downplay or ignore the rich and full range of the achievements of the Cross, and its many applications to our lives. An important and edifying volume

112 pages, Kindle Edition

Published January 4, 2015

About the author

Dr Lee Gatiss is the Director of Church Society and has served in several Anglican churches. He teaches church history at Wales Evangelical School of Theology and in Cambridge where he lives with his wife, Kerry, and their three children. He is the author / editor of about a dozen books, including For Us and For Our Salvation, and The NIV Proclamation Bible.

Reviews

[Aled Seago · Rating 5 out of 5]

A helpful and needed word. Particularly it speaks into the conservative evangelical culture and the issues it is currently facing.

[Graham Heslop · Rating 4 out of 5]

Full review of this to come where I blog: Rekindle. But until that is up, and something I will develop in my review, Gatiss' corrective to the current trends surrounding our teaching and preaching on the cross is both timely and crucial. As he says, we are caught up in debates surrounding the nature of the atonement and justification by faith. Though these touchstones of the Christian faith must be defended, preserving the plain teaching of Scripture, the polemic culture has resulted in a biblically anaemic view of what the cross achieves. Gatiss very simply unpacks some of the secondary - nonetheless magnificent - effects of the cross