Book Review: In My Place Condemned He Stood
Wednesday, June 18, 2008 at 9:45PM
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Celebrating the Glory of the Atonement by J. I. Packer and Mark Dever.

The publication of this book resulted from the collective reasoning of Ligon Duncan, Al Mohler, Mark Dever and C.J. Mahaney,  who all agreed that it would be useful to have three classic essays on the atonement by J.I. Packer included in one book. These three pieces—The Heart of the Gospel, a chapter from the classic book Knowing God; What Did the Cross Achieve?: The Logic of Penal Substitution, originally a Tyndale Biblical Theology Lecture; and Saved by His Precious Blood,  the well-known introduction to John Owen’s The Death of Death in the Death of Christ—along with Mark Dever’s article, Nothing but the Blood, first published in Christianity Today, make up the heart of In My Place Condemned He Stood.

Since this book is a collection of essays, I’ve decided to go through it chapter by chapter, giving a short summary of each and, when I think it’d be useful, my evaluation of it.

If you’ve read this far, you probably don’t need me to tell you that I highly recommend In My Place Condemned He Stood. The question someone might have, I suppose, is “Why would I pay for this book when so much of the material is available elsewhere and I’ve already read it there?” To be honest, that was my own question as I worked my way through  it. Now that I’m done, I’m really glad to have a compact volume that includes all these essays. It’s a very good thing to have them in a book I can hold, a book I could mark up as I read, and a book I can refer back to as needed.
 
The Book Report has an interview with Mark Dever and J.I. Packer about this book. [HT to Justin Taylor.]
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