Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The branch of theology dealing with the nature and means of salvation.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A discourse on health; the art of promoting and preserving health; hygiene.
- noun That branch of theology which treats of the salvation of men through Jesus Christ.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A discourse on health, or the science of promoting and preserving health.
- noun (Theol.) The doctrine of salvation by Jesus Christ.
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- noun theology The study or doctrine of
salvation .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun the branch of Christian theology that deals with salvation as the effect of a divine agency
Etymologies
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Examples
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First, since when did the Pope take his directives on soteriology from the ECT documents, as significant or meaningful as they might be?
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Thus our soteriology, which is not rooted in "saving" the world, becomes indistinguishable from the soteriology that puts that burden precisely at its heart.
Adventus 2009
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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.
The Beginnings of Christianity. Vol. II. 1872-1939 1904
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4. What is our implicit theology of "soteriology"?
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This word (Greek soter, from which is derived our theological term "soteriology," the study of salvation) occurs 24 times in the New Testament and is applied only to Christ, "for there is none other name under heaven given Acts 4: 12).
Latest Articles Institute for Creation Research 2010
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• A soteriology: "If we win this game, I'll be in seventh heaven!"
Sports 2009
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After all, it is an essential part of Catholic soteriology.
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After all, it is an essential part of Catholic soteriology.
Ecumenism 2009
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After all, it is an essential part of Catholic soteriology.
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Exactly *how* that atonement works — “soteriology” — is a surprisingly gray area in Christian theology; the prevailing theory in the Western churches, that of Anselm, came along about 1,000 years later.
knitandpurl commented on the word soteriology
"For more on the casuistry, the soteriology, and even the proctology of the letter X, see Edgar Lee Meaulnes."
The No Variations by Luis Chitarroni, translated by Darren Koolman, p 39
September 16, 2013