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Definition of "soteriology" []

  • The theological doctrine of salvation as effected by Jesus. (noun)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

Use "soteriology" in a sentence
  • "First, since when did the Pope take his directives on soteriology from the ECT documents, as significant or meaningful as they might be?"
  • "Thus our soteriology, which is not rooted in "saving" the world, becomes indistinguishable from the soteriology that puts that burden precisely at its heart."
  • "So, again, the Pauline Christology ends in Docetism, and his teaching that we are saved by the Spirit is a soteriology which is at once physical and magical, while the evolution of his eschatology consists in the denial of the resurrection of the body."
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