Reconciliation, a theological

Christian theology

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 term, is an element of salvation

Salvation

Within religion salvation is the phenomenon of being saved from the undesirable condition of bondage or suffering experienced by the psyche or soul that has arisen as a result of unskillful or immoral actions generically referred to as sins. Salvation may also be called "deliverance" or...

 that refers to the results of atonement. Reconciliation as a theological concept describes the end of the estrangement, caused by sin

Original sin

Original sin is, according to a Christian theological doctrine, humanity's state of sin resulting from the Fall of Man. This condition has been characterized in many ways, ranging from something as insignificant as a slight deficiency, or a tendency toward sin yet without collective guilt, referred...

, between God

God

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 and humanity

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. John Calvin

John Calvin

John Calvin was an influential French theologian and pastor during the Protestant Reformation. He was a principal figure in the development of the system of Christian theology later called Calvinism. Originally trained as a humanist lawyer, he broke from the Roman Catholic Church around 1530...

 describes reconciliation as the peace between humanity and God that results from the expiation of religious sin and the propitiation

Propitiation

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 of God's wrath. Evangelical

Evangelicalism

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 theologian Philip Ryken

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 describes reconciliation in this way; "It is part of the message of Salvation that brings us back together with God. ... God is the author, Christ is the agent and we are the ambassadors of reconciliation (2 Corinthians 5)." Although it's only used five times in the Pauline corpus

Pauline epistles

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 (Romans

Epistle to the Romans

The Epistle of Paul to the Romans, often shortened to Romans, is the sixth book in the New Testament. Biblical scholars agree that it was composed by the Apostle Paul to explain that Salvation is offered through the Gospel of Jesus Christ...

 5:10-11, 11:15, 2 Corinthians 5:18-20, Ephesians 2:14-17 and Colossians 1:19-22) it is an essential term, describing the "substance" of the gospel

Gospel

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 and salvation

Salvation

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. Ralph Martin writing in the Dictionary of Paul and his Letters, suggests reconciliation is at the center of Pauline theology

Pauline Christianity

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. Stanley Porter writing in the same volume suggests a conceptual link between the reconciliation Greek

Koine Greek

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 word group katallage (or katallasso) and the Hebrew word shalom, generally translated as 'peace.'