soteriology
Americannoun
noun
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- sotereologic adjective
- sotereological adjective
- soteriologic adjective
Etymology
Origin of soteriology
1760–70; < Greek sōtērí ( a ) salvation, deliverance ( sōtēr- (stem of sōtḗr ) deliverer + -ia -y 3 ) + -o- + -logy
Example Sentences
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What does an esoteric concept like Calvinist soteriology have to do with the rise of modern economics?
From New York Times
Instead of discussing soteriology or theodicy or even Jesus, they talk in the blanched terms of bad things and good people, even with one another.
From New York Times
Marxism provided a soteriology — a theory of salvation — that caused people to die and kill in service to a redemptive ideal.
From Washington Post
“My statement is not a statement on soteriology or trinitarian theology, but one of embodied piety.”
From New York Times
But in the sphere of soteriology the legacy of Adoptionism can clearly be seen.
From Project Gutenberg
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