In Christ Alone (song)

The song was composed in 2001 and originally released on the Kingsway album New Irish Hymns, featuring vocalists Máire Brennan, Margaret Becker, and Joanne Hogg.

[13][14] In 2013, the song was covered by American worship band Passion—with a new bridge section added—and led by Kristian Stanfill, and was included in their 2013 live album Passion: Let the Future Begin.

[15] In 2015, a portion of the piano melody featured on American musician Julien Baker's album Sprained Ankle, at the end of one of its tracks "Go Home".

"[16] In 2023, the song was covered by American singer Natalie Grant on her 2023 album Seasons,[17] and in 2024 it was featured on Michael W. Smith's EP Worthy Is The Lamb.

[18] The second verse of the hymn contains the line, "Till on that cross as Jesus died, the wrath of God was satisfied," which adheres to the satisfaction theory of atonement.

PCUSA minister Chris Joiner of First said that while many in his congregation liked the hymn, he agreed with the decision because "that lyric comes close to saying that God killed Jesus.

"[19] Timothy George, the dean of Beeson Divinity School, criticized the decision in an online column titled "No Squishy Love" and claimed that it "fits into a wider pattern of downplaying parts of Christian doctrine that are offensive.

"[21] Boyce College professor Denny Burk took a view similar to George, stating that "When wrath goes, so does the central meaning of the atonement of God: penal substitution.