id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt en-wikipedia-org-1037 Salvation in Christianity - Wikipedia .html text/html 19586 2253 69 Early Christian notions of the person and sacrificial role of Jesus in human salvation were further elaborated by the Church Fathers, medieval writers and modern scholars in various atonement theories, such as the ransom theory, Christus Victor theory, the recapitulation theory, the satisfaction theory, the penal substitution theory, and the moral influence theory. Variant views on salvation are among the main fault lines dividing the various Christian denominations, including conflicting definitions of sin and depravity (the sinful nature of mankind), justification (God's means of removing the consequences of sin), and atonement (the forgiving or pardoning of sin through the suffering, death and resurrection of Jesus). ./cache/en-wikipedia-org-1037.html ./txt/en-wikipedia-org-1037.txt