propitiation

How To Use propitiation In A Sentence

• Yet the tigers of the Chitwan Valley can be elusive in the absence of propitiation by Tharu priests.
• Similarly, there are other rituals outside their sphere of activity, such as the propitiation or exorcism of dangerous spirits.
• They deny both the necessity and the validity of atonement by the death of the Cross, and affirm that its propitiation is not necessary to salvation.
• Thus the name indicated the joy of the people at the fancied propitiation of the god by this sacrifice; in antithesis to its joyless name subsequently. valley of slaughter -- It should be the scene of slaughter, no longer of children, but of men; not of "innocents" (Jer 19: 4), but of those who richly deserved their fate. Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
• Yet the word propitiation KJV, NASB, or “atoning sacrifice,” NIV is neither used quite so often nor understood quite as well. THE NAMES OF JESUS
• The third… is that of expiation, propitiation and reconciliation… [and] the fourth end, finally, is that of impetration.
• Polly only thought, at that time, of improving on her successful propitiation of Miss Nipper, and devising some means of having little Florence aide her, lawfully, and without rebellion.
• Some modern students of the Bible don’t like the term propitiation because they say it implies pagan notions about fickle gods who need humoring and prefer instead the term expiation NRSV. THE NAMES OF JESUS
• The mechanism of propitiation carries with it covert hostility.
• His death was a sacrifice to God and a propitiation for the remission of sins.