Limited atonement is a specifically Calvinist or “Reformed” doctrine. It holds that Christ died not for all men, but only for the elect — those whose eternal destiny is heaven. Other Christians, ...

(RNS) — In recent decades, some Christians have moved away from the theory of penal substitutionary atonement, which summons up the idea of an angry God who needs to be appeased. (RNS) — When he ...

Perhaps our most famous Christian account of redemption is commonly known as substitutionary atonement. It runs something like this: in the beginning, God created the earth, and it was good—but then ...