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The Moral Influence Theory of the atonement is often associated with the theologian Peter Abelard, famously known for his love affair with Eloise!
As a young priest, Abelard was hired by a family to tutor their young teenaged daughter Eloise. He seduced her, more or less forced himself upon her sexually, but she fell in love with him. They began this love affair that finally culminated in marriage. But her father, to say the least, was not pleased about Abelard’s seducing his daughter and so he hired a gang of thugs to break into Abelard’s residence one night and they castrated him in bed whereupon Eloise was then consigned to a nunnery for the rest of her life. Abelard went on to become a very famous theologian and philosopher...