Enduring Love Enduring Love Enduring Love (1997) is a novel by British writer Ian McEwan. The plot concerns two strangers who become perilously entangled after witnessing a deadly accident. On a beautiful and cloudless day, a middle-aged couple celebrate their union with a picnic. Joe Rose, aged 47, and his long term partner Clarissa Mellon are about to open a bottle of wine when a cry interrupts them. A hot-air balloon, with a ten-year-old boy in the basket and his grandfather being dragged behind it, has been ripped from its moorings. Joe immediately joins several other men in an effort to bring
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