Like solidarity with the victims, the atonement for the perpetrators issues forth from the heart of the triune God, whose very being is love (1 John 4:8). Moltmann writes, On the cross of Christ this love [i.e., the love of God] is there for the others, for sinners—the recalcitrant—enemies. The reciprocal self-surrender to one another within the Trinity is manifested in Christ’s self-surrender in a world which is in contradiction to God; and this self-giving draws all those who believe in him into the eternal life of the divine love.
