The similar phrase 'Worldly Christianity' is one used by Bonhoeffer. It's J Gresham Machen that I want to line up most closely with. See his Christianity and culture here. Having done commentaries on Proverbs (Heavenly Wisdom) and Song of Songs (Heavenly Love), a matching title for Ecclesiastes would be Heavenly Worldliness. For my stance on worldliness, see 3 posts here.

McCleod on Scots atonement theologians

Good day looking at Smeaton yesterday with the other men at the John Owen Centre. Stumbled across this list from Donald Macleod on Scottish Atonement Theology (Dictionary of Scottish Church History and Theology) here. Such theologians are characterised by

1. A sustained, reverent reflection on the sufferings of Christ. 
2. A perception of the work of Christ in sacerdotal terms.
3. An insistence that the sufferings of Christ were penal.
4. A portrayal of the atonement as a satisfaction to divine justice.
5. The sufferings of Christ were vicarious.
6. The setting of the cross in a covenant framework.
7. The indispensable necessity of the atonement to salvation.
8. The unambiguous portrayal as a fruit and consequence of the love of God [the Father].
9. A prominence for the idea of victory not surpassed in any other Western tradition before Gustaf Aulen.
10. A belief in limited atonement, but stated very carefully.

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