satisfaction theory

satisfaction theory
noun
: a theory of the atonement in scholastic theology: according to the requirements of divine justice God and man could not be reconciled until human guilt was punished or acceptable satisfaction was made and Christ made such satisfaction by freely and vicariously suffering and dying — see penal theory; compare governmental atonement, moral theory, ransom theory, sacrificial theory

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satisfaction theory noun
The Christian orthodoxy that Christ made satisfaction to Divine justice for the guilt of human sin by suffering as the human representative, and that thus Divine forgiveness was made possible
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