Atonement
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Atonement is reconciliation with God, of people who have sinned. It is a concept of forgiveness and repair, based on the mercy of God, the central idea of Christianity. 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.)
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.
See also
- Divine mercy
- Atonement (Governmental view)
- Forgiveness
- Justification
- Mercy seat
- Pardon
- Propitiation
- Scapegoat
- Sin
- Substitutionary atonement
External links
- Biblical Atonement: The Governmental View (http://twtministries.com/articles/8_mgt/govthry.html) (Arminian/Wesleyan)
- The Christian Doctrine of the Atonement (http://www.geocities.com/pastorkeith/atonement.html) (Arminian/Wesleyan)
- Historical Opinions as to the Nature of Christ's Atoning Death (http://twtministries.com/articles/8_mgt/hisatone.html) (Arminian/Wesleyan)
- The Biblical Doctrine of the Atonement (http://www.monergism.com/thethreshold/articles/topic/atonement.html) (Calvinist/Reformed)
- Definite Atonement, Limited Atonement, Particular Redemption (http://www.monergism.com/thethreshold/articles/topic/definiteatonement.html) (Calvinist/Reformed)
- Anselm's Satisfaction model (http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02055a.htm) (Roman Catholic)