We can do so by exploring a little more closely the sort of atonement relevant in the case of a failure merely in intention.
So there is no need for additional reparation, and the satisfaction theory of the atonement is otiose.
Seymour cannot escape the need for a vicarious atonement in order to meet the demands of justice.
In this conceptualisation, the purge acted as a means of atonement that would redeem not only the transgressor but the entire community.
It can be situated within a romantic sensibility of landscape and represents a qualitative consciousness of atonement and reconciliation of architecture with the land.
For perfect removal of guilt, the wrongdoer must make atonement and be forgiven by the victim.
Perhaps the only atonement or amends to the victims is this commitment and assurance.
Its traditional stress on biblical authority and substitutionary atonement did not slacken.
