atonement

IPA: ʌtˈoʊnmʌnt

Making amends to restore a damaged relationship; expiation.
(theology, often with capitalized initial) The reconciliation of God and mankind through the death of Jesus.
(archaic) Reconciliation; restoration of friendly relations; concord.

Examples of "atonement" in Sentences

The word atonement, which is almost the only theological term of
It strikes me that what they call the atonement is a kind of moral bankruptcy.
The word atonement is one of a very few theological terms that can be explained in a helpful way through its English form.
And yet the deviation in this particular instance is less remarkable, because the English word atonement, at the time when the
In what you call the atonement, in what you mean by the word, what I have already written must make it plain enough I do not believe.
Indeed, as has already been remarked, it is quite synonymous with the term atonement, involving the same ideas and serving the same purposes.
I no longer have to fight with myself over how the atonement is applied to the Christian, or over whether Calvin or Arminius had a better doctrine of justification.
As regards the words themselves, it may be well to note, in the first place, that the English word atonement is entirely an Old Testament word, not Two ruling conceptions.