certainly our own fault, we who spend our time in academia. We throw around words like propitiation, justification, and atonement, arguing among ourselves as to their precise connotations, without spending the necessary time training people in our churches as to their meaning. What happens is that an unnatural gap is created between those who study theology for a living, and “average, everyday believers.” Given this disparity, we tend to do one of two things. Either we ignore the topics altogether