English Dictionary

penal substitution

名詞

不可算名詞

(theology) The theory of atonement which holds that Jesus died on the Cross in place of human sinners.

日本語の意味

十字架上において、人間の罪に代わってイエス・キリストが死んだとする、贖罪に関するキリスト教神学の説。

Many theologians continue to debate the implications of penal substitution for modern understandings of justice and mercy.

多くの神学者は、キリストが人間の罪人に代わって十字架で死んだとする贖罪説が、現代における正義と憐れみの理解に与える影響について議論を続けている。

意味（1）

(theology) The theory of atonement which holds that Jesus died on the Cross in place of human sinners.

As part of that literal reading, concentrating on a line of thought on salvation pursued by St Paul, came the penal substitution theory, and Fundamentalists rightly concluded that these were the aspects of Christianity most vulnerable to attack from nineteenth-century intellectual developments.