“He asked, “What do you tell your congregation about how Christians understood the Atonement for the thousand years prior to Anselm?”
Favor me by explaining what the heck this Tony Jones character means by this statment? I clicked the link but see that the context is somewhere in a 7 page article. Is he an open theist? a liberal? both?
You can start here:
http://apprising.org/category/tony-jones/
He is one of the leaders of the emergent/emerging church. It was him or one of the other leaders who said that Christ’s substitutionary atonement was divine child abuse. They believe in universal salvation, but good luck getting them to admit to it. The emerging church heresy is worming its way into many churches and deceiving many Christians!