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atonement theory

  1. ViaCrucis

    Recapitulation, Satisfaction, and Peter Abelard

    I'm going to first admit that this is a very spontaneous and almost random thought of mine. As someone who has wrestled with and tried to actively engage with the theology Atonement and its many theories (Penal Substitution, Satisfaction, Ransom, etc) I've been of several minds over my...
  2. Not David

    Substitutionary sacrifice

    I know Christ was offered as a sacrifice for our sins. I am wondering how is Christ as "Lamb of God" viewed in Orthodoxy different from Catholic Satisfaction Theory and the Penal Substitution?
  3. D

    Original and Ancestral Sin

    Hello all. I wanted to start this thread to generate some helpful discussion on the topic of original/ ancestral sin. In the West original sin is typiclly associated with inherited guilt. That is that all of humanity that is born is given the guilt of Adam and therefore worthy of the final...