Atonement (novel) Atonement (novel) Atonement is a 2001 British metafiction novel written by Ian McEwan concerning the understanding of and responding to the need for personal atonement. Set in three time periods, 1935 England, Second World War England and France, and present-day England, it covers an upper-class girl's half-innocent mistake that ruins lives, her adulthood in the shadow of that mistake, and a reflection on the nature of writing. Widely regarded as one of McEwan's best works, it was shortlisted for the 2001 Booker Prize for fiction. In 2010, "TIME" magazine named "Atonement" in its list of the 100 greatest English-language novels
Limited atonement created Adam in a state of original righteousness, but he fell into sin and all humanity in him as their Federal head. Those elected to salvation were chosen without a view to their faith or good works but by the sovereign will of God. The Calvinist atonement is called "definite" by some because they believe it certainly secures the salvation of those for whom Christ died, and it is called "limited" in its extent because it effects salvation for the elect only. Calvinists do not believe the power of the atonement is limited in any way, which is to say