Atonement

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

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Ian McEwan - 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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Doctrine - Christianity - Reconciliation - God - Sin - Forgiveness - Mercy of God

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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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Sin - Jesus - Trinity - The Son - Suffered - 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 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.)

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Substitutionary atonement - Anselm of Canterbury - Pierre Abélard - Thomas Aquinas - Hugo Grotius - John Calvin - John Miley - Eastern Orthodoxy - Soteriology

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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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Day of Atonement - Hebrew - Rosh Hashana

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