The Bible Doctrine of Salvation-A Study of the Atonement by C Ryder Smith.
 
INTRODUCTION
Two remarks have often been made about the doctrine of the Atonement-first, that no one account of it has ever been officially and finally adopted by the Church, and, second, that the account of it current in any given period has reflected the general ideas of the time. For instance, it is agreed that Anselm's account has some relation to the concepts of feudalism, though the nature of that relation may be debated.
 
Yet the exponents of all historical theories in all periods have all claimed to find their theories in the Bible, and, in spite of the many modern discussions of every kind of Biblical subject, the appeal to the Bible is still the final appeal...................