Atonement

::For Ian McEwan's novel, see Atonement (novel).

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The Atonement is the central doctrine of Christianity: everything else derives from it. It 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.

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It attempts to explain why the sinless 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.

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Especially prominent in western Christianity is the concept of substitutionary atonement pioneered by Anselm of Canterbury and adapted by Pierre Ab?lard, 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.)

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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.

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Ian McEwan: Ian McEwan (born June 21, 1948) is a British novelist, sometimes nicknamed "Ian Macabre" because of the nature of his early work....

Atonement (novel): Atonement (2001) is a novel by British writer Ian McEwan. It was shortlisted for the 2001 Booker Prize for fiction, an award that McEwan had already won for his previous novel, Amsterdam....

Doctrine: Doctrine, from Latin doctrina, (compare doctor), means "a body of teachings" or "instructions", taught principles or positions, as the body of teachings in a branch of knowledge or belief system. The Greek analogy is the etymology of catechism....

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