Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Of or pertaining to soteriology; specifically, pertaining to the doctrine of spiritual salvation through Jesus Christ.
Wiktionary
- adj. theology Pertaining to soteriology.
WordNet 3.0
- adj. of or relating to soteriology
Etymologies
- From soteriology + -ical, after German soteriologisch. (Wiktionary)
Examples
“Differences in soteriological conceptions follow from the different evaluation of the person and mission of Jesus.”
“I don't at all mind explaining theological jargon, for instance, because there just isn't a really compelling reason to know the word soteriological, for instance, without studying theology.”
“This pressing question, fraught with all sorts of theological, soteriological, and political undertones, is bravely and soberly (ahem!) addressed in this recent AFP article, which provides the following (admittedly non-systematic) answers:”
“(Self-Power and Other-Power are two divisions of Buddhism dividing it into those schools which teach a soteriological end for those who practice on their own via their own wills, versus those which depend upon the Other Power of Amida).”
“Interrupted occasionally by call-ins of incredulous listeners, Limbaugh detailed months of off-the-record conversations with Wallis during which the two forged a deep friendship despite political, theological, philosophical, ideological, ecological, anthropological, eschatological, and soteriological differences.”
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“Buddhist soteriological practice as Insichsein or "being-within-self" (that is, ultimately without concrete determinants); or whether Buddhism did influence him indirectly; my thesis stands: that there is a remarkable and historically probable collusion between Hegel's view of the nothingness of the in-itself — or, as first stated in the”
“One very significant aspect of the soteriological practice of Buddhism is the progressive realization of ever more profound views of reality.”
“Iconographic studies, especially those focused on the astrological aspects of the cult, abound, while other scholars examine the philosophical and soteriological nature of the cult (Turcan 1975 and Bianchi 1982).”
“Being rather more interested in the soteriological than the dialectical these days, I find the idea of herding humans into pens a bit, well, inhumane.”
“I do wonder why so many contemporary believers take its basic soteriological narrative so literally, so earnestly, so clumsily.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘soteriological’.
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Seven-syllable English Words
A list of English words containing seven syllables, beginning, somewhat ironically, with inapplicability, since a fair number of these words one would never use.
I'm tagging all words ...inapplicability, unsatisfactorily, heterogeneity, disintermediation, antiglobalization, telecommunication, interdisciplinary, meteorological, socioeconomic, intelligibility, autobiographical, industrialization and 423 more...
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More Adjectival Arcana
List of adjectives such as everduring that do not frequent common speech and writing. A continuation of my list Adjectival Arcana, which had grown to over 7700 words and had become far too cumbersome.
transpontine, fetichistic, everduring, tachygraphic, tachygraphical, holographic, holographical, spectrobolographic, autographic, chirographal, autographal, ipsographic and 1419 more...
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looked up
Words I've come across while reading and looked up in the dictionary.
deesis, pendentive, revetment, aedicule, stemma, patera, ephod, entrepot, corbel, exedra, volute, archivolt and 1408 more...
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lmm141's Words
obdurate, nascent, bifurcation, recalcitrant, facetious, exegesis, solipsistic, onanism, rogue, ostensibly, misanthrope, lithe and 23 more...
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Interesting
Words I didn't know that might come in handy one day...
muniment, underlock, stochastic, stertorous, turnsole, littoral, Lemniscate, fugacity, rodomontade, ambes-ace, Apophasis, folderol and 74 more...
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prowsej's Words
elide, jape, mordant, autochthony, colloquy, ineluctable, synoptic, hirsute, fillip, mulct, chiropody, prolixity and 12 more...
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Words to Learn
eudaimonic, metempsychosis, anathema, synod, ecclesiastic, coterminous, epiphenomenon, soteriological
Tweets
Looking for tweets for soteriological.

knitandpurl 'I didn't exist at Creation,
I didn't exist at the Flood,
And I won't be around for Salvation
To sort out the sheep from the cud-
'Or whatever the phrase is. The fact is
In soteriological terms
I'm a crude existential malpractice
And you are a diet of worms.
- from "God, A Poem" by James Fenton Nov 6, 2012