Atonement (Theological Word of the Day)

[uh-tone’-mint]

(Middle English atonen, “to be reconciled,” from Middle English at one, “in agreement”)

In Christian Theology, this refers to the doctrine of the reconciliation between God and man through the accomplished death and resurrection of Jesus Christ. According to the Elwell Evangelical Dictionary, atonement “is the expiation of sin and the propitiation of God by the incarnation, life, sufferings, and death of Jesus Christ; the obedience and death of Christ on behalf of sinners as the ground of redemption; in the narrow sense, the sacrificial work of Christ for sinners.”

From the Reclaiming the Mind blog.