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- adjective Relating to the
doctrine ofsalvation . - noun A person who adheres to the
doctrine ofsalvation .
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Examples
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If the former is individualistic, magical, and salvationist, the latter is collective, technical, and this-worldly.
Planet-x.com.au » Why Jews Write Science Fiction and Christians Write Fantasy … 2010
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No, really, we do need new approaches to get our ideas out there, maybe not something centrist, but salvationist ...
Skinning the Cat; Time To ReFrame Some Progressive Values, Issues and Goals? 2008
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What did it say about McCain's judgment and steadiness that he could careen between a liberal apostate he knew well and a frontier salvationist he knew hardly at all who's the opposite in most respects?
John & Sarah in St. Paul Lelyveld, Joseph 2008
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It seems to have something to do with monotheism, or narrow salvationist ideas.
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It may be something to do with being a universalizing, salvationist monotheism.
Those damned media atheists. Ann Althouse 2007
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The salvationist doctrine has two main strands, which originally were separate but have long since come together to form an influential world-wide consensus.
Economics, Climate Change Issues and Global Salvationism « Climate Audit 2005
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J.A. Bengel, who computed the date of the end of the world as 3836, and in J.J. Hess, who — a clear sign of historical interest — was the author of the first Life of Jesus (3 vols., 1768-72), and in 1774 wrote a work of salvationist dogmatics entitled Of the Kingdom of
ESCHATOLOGY WALTER SCHMITHALS 1968
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The awakening historical conscious - ness that advanced salvationist schemes in theology since the eighteenth century led in the course of a general secularization of culture to a secular idea of eschatology also.
ESCHATOLOGY WALTER SCHMITHALS 1968
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The remarkable increase in apocalyptic fanaticism since the eighteenth century is connected with the universal emergence of historical consciousness that took place at that time; this in turn led to numerous conceptions of an eschatologically oriented salvationist theology; in the eighteenth century, for example, in
ESCHATOLOGY WALTER SCHMITHALS 1968
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Oriental mystery cults attempted to answer the need for a salvationist faith with its mysticisms and forms of sacrament; philosophy outside the Church was running to religiosity.
CHRISTIANITY IN HISTORY HERBERT BUTTERFIELD 1968
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