'The passion to pack God into a conceptual box of our own making is always strong, but must be resisted. If we bear in mind that all the knowledge we can have of the atonment is of a mystery about which we can only think and speak by means of models, and which remain a mystery when all is said and done, it will keep us fromn rationalistic pitfals and thus help our progres considerably.'
JI Packer, 'What Did the Cross Achieve?' in Celebrating the Saving Work of God, p.94.
