I can't really believe it, but not only that this book is not available in Logos, but Google search claims it has never even been suggested here before!
Bromiley in my newly-acquired ISBE says: the ancient redemption or liberation view has been revived in Christus Victor (1935), a fine book by G. Aulen, who points out that for all the curious distortions it suffered, this understanding expresses the sound and biblical concept of the active and triumphant Christ.
Martyn Lloyd Jones says: Now this view of the atonement has sometimes been called the classical view, classical, because it was taught in the early centuries and has been repeated very often since. A man who repeated it in his usual forceful manner was Martin Luther. (...) Now I call your attention to this, not only because it is taught in the Scripture but because this aspect of the atonement tends to receive a great deal of attention at the present time. There has been a modern revival of this view. It is being taught in a striking way by certain Lutheran teachers in Sweden and they, in turn, are influencing thought in Britain. A book was published in 1931 which has made this view very popular. It is called Christus Victor, and is by a Swedish writer called Gustav Aulen; those who are interested in this would greatly enjoy reading that small book.
Millard Erickson says The Atonement as Victory over the Forces of Sin and Evil: The theory with the greatest claim to having been the standard view in the early history of the church is probably the so-called ransom theory. Gustaf Aulen has called it the classic view,[footnote reference to Aulen: Christus Victor, p. 20] and in many ways that designation is correct, for in various forms it dominated the church’s thinking until the time of Anselm and Abelard. It was even the primary way in which Augustine understood the atonement, and thus it enjoyed the immense prestige that his name accorded.
JI Packer and Sinclair Ferguson in their New Dictionary of Theology have an entry to Aulen, Gustav and say: He is chiefly known for his short work on the atonement, Christus Victor, which attempts to reinstate the so-called ‘classic’ view of the atonement. This interpretation, traced by Aulén in the NT, and also in Irenaeus and Luther, envisages the cross as God’s mighty act of triumph over powers of evil hostile to his will, and distinguishes itself from Latin ideas of satisfaction and from ‘subjective’ or ‘exemplarist’ accounts.
N. T. Wright says: The larger story concerns the victory over evil as a whole that was won, according to the New Testament, on the cross. (It is interesting to observe how in the “traditional” readings this central biblical theme is regularly screened out, though making an occasional comeback in such works as the celebrated Christus Victor of Gustaf Aulén.)
So I think it really, really should be available in Logos. For licence negotiations: Christus Victor is a Macmillan, Wipf & Stock or SPCK Classics book, all publishers having works in Logos. The content first appeared in German language 1930 in the "Zeitschrift für systematische Theologie", but I wouldn't assume bringing it over from there was faster...
