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The Atonement is the central with God , of people who have Sin ned. It is a concept of Forgiveness and repair, based on the mercy of God, the central idea of Christianity .

It attempts to explain why the Sin less human being Jesus died, and in terms of the Trinity , why God The Son , the second Person of the Trinity, incarnated in human flesh as Jesus , Suffered horribly and died on The Cross .

Especially prominent in western Christianity is the concept of Substitutionary Atonement pioneered by Anselm Of Canterbury and adapted by Pierre Abélard , Thomas Aquinas , Hugo Grotius , John Calvin , John Miley and others. ( Eastern Orthodoxy has a substantively different Soteriology ; this is sometimes cited as the core difference between Eastern and Western Christianity.)

A different concept of atonement exists in Judaism. The Holiest day of the year is the Day Of Atonement known as Yom Kippur in Hebrew . It comes exactly ten days after the Jewish New Year known as Rosh Hashana .


ATONEMENT THEORIES IN CHRISTIANITY

  • Christus Victor

  • Moral Influence

  • Satisfaction

  • Governmental



Christus Victor

Recapitulation: Irenaeus , Eastern Orthodox Church , some Lutherans

Ransom: Origen , Gregory Of Nyssa

Scapegoating: René Girard , James Alison , Gerhard Förde see 'In Christianity' in Scapegoat


Moral Influence



Satisfaction


Divine satisfaction: Anselm Of Canterbury & Salvation In Catholicism

Penalty or Punishment satisfaction: John Calvin , Calvinism , & Imputed Righteousness


Governmental



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