The Catholic Doctrine of the Atonement: A Historical Inquiry into its Development in the Church is a book written by Henry Nutcombe Oxenham and published in 1865. The book is a historical investigation into the development of the Catholic doctrine of atonement, which is the belief that Jesus Christ's death on the cross redeemed humanity from sin. Oxenham examines the evolution of this doctrine from the earliest days of Christianity through the Middle...