Part 1, Chapter 3 Quotes …was everyone else really as alive as she was? For example, did her sister really matter to herself, was she as valuable to herself as Briony was? Was being Cecilia just as vivid an affair as being Briony? Did her sister also have a real self concealed beh...
Part 1, Chapter 9 Explanation and Analysis—Excluding the Worst: Because the narrator moves between the perspectives of a range of characters, the novel contains many instances of dramatic irony. Moreover, because the narrator is narrating with the benefit of hindsight, the first part also conta...
… The marvel of the Atonement is just this very thing, that the perfect Savior imparts His perfections to me, and as I walk in the light as God is in the light, every part of bodily life, of affectionate life and of spirit life are kept unblameable in holiness; my duty is to ...
The victory of the death of Christ over the power of the devil begins now to play a prominent part in the idea of the atonement. Baur maintains that this was really due to Gnostic ideas taken up into the line of Christian thought; "that as the relation between the Demiurge and Redeemer...
or come across it in asterisks. No one in her presence had ever referred to the word’s existence, and what was more, no one, not even her mother, had ever referred to the existence of that part of her to which—Briony was certain—the word referred. She had no doubt that that was...
The Valley Of Ashes is the poor working class part of the story where industrial workers work and are surrounded by smoke and ash covering their clothes. In contrast to New York The Valley Of Ashes is a dump where poor people live in New York you're surrounded by tall buildings and cars...
Atonement Summary and Analysis of Part One: Chapter Ten Summary: Briony runs away from her sister and up to her room to get ready for dinner. While there, she tries to write. We learn, without doubt, that Briony opened the letter and discovered the obscenity in its closing sentences (...
The atonement is not part of the symbolism of the second goat. While some Protestant commentators understand this correctly, others either do not know what the Azazel goat represents or think it represents the physical life of Christ. Yet, that latter explanation would not seem to be consistent...
Luther reasoned from John 3:16 that the Christian can safely and confidently conclude that God gave His Son for him personally. If God’s Son died for the world i.e., humanity, then He died for me since I without a doubt am part of humanity. (Scaer 1967, pp. 185–86) The “...
“For I do not desire, brethren, that you should be ignorant of this mystery, lest you should be wise in your own opinion, that blindness in part has happened to Israel until the fullness of the Gentiles has come in… and so all Israel shall be saved.” (Romans 11:25–27) Ortho...