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
Substitutionary atonement debt for sin upon himself, and propitiating God’s wrath. There are a number of other substitutionary theories of the atonement besides the four described above. A few are listed below: Atonement is a theological term for the act of paying for and thereby redeeming sin. The word often is used in the Old Testament to translate the Hebrew words "kipper" and "kippurim", which mean 'propitiation' or 'expiation'. The word occurs in the KJV in and has the basic meaning of "reconciliation". In the Old Testament (Hebrew Bible or Tanakh), atonement was accomplished by the sacrifice of specified animals such as