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Atonement (Christus Victor view)
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Christus Victor
Under the
Christus Victor
theory of the
Atonement in Christianity
,
Christ
's
death
defeated the powers of
evil
, which had held humankind in their dominion. It is a model of the atonement that is dated to the
Church Fathers
, and it, or the related
ransom theory
, was the dominant theory of the atonement for a thousand years, until
Anselm of Canterbury
supplanted it in the West with his
Satisfaction theory of atonement
.
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