That's not a sweeping statement about "discomfort with the idea of an angry God." It's a specific statement about the satisfaction theory of atonement. (That's "satisfaction," the noun form of the ...

Then we need something else. It all comes back to the “satisfaction formula”: satisfaction = getting what you want. But you never really stop wanting things, and so, well, are you ever really ...

I offered an abbreviated version of the work I’d been doing on atonement: trying to retrieve and distinguish Anselm’s theory of satisfaction from the later, more Calvinist penal substitution theory.

Rational choice theory can help determine buying patterns, prices, demand, and supply when consumers make purchases based on utility or the satisfaction a product or service provides. Critics of ...

There was some evidence of communication being a predictor of satisfaction, but it wasn't "as strong as it should have been given how central that assumption is in theory as well as practice.