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My sense is that Paul would have found the substitutionary model degrading, a small version of what Easter means.

From Salon • Apr. 21, 2019

Anselm's formulation, often called substitutionary atonement, has been restated in countless ways over the centuries.

From Time Magazine Archive

A colleague of hers said the film seemed to assume the theory of substitutionary atonement.

From Time Magazine Archive

Is it any more than an illustration of His substitutionary work, one instance out of many of His habit of self-devotion in the room of others?

From The Expositor's Bible: The Gospel of St John, Vol. II by Dods, Marcus

By one program we adopt the principles and follow the spirit of the life of Christ; by the other we trust in the merits of the shed blood and substitutionary death of Christ.

From The Church, the Schools and Evolution by Conant, J. E. (Judson Eber)