soteriology
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Origin of soteriology
1760–70; < Greek sōtērí ( a ) salvation, deliverance ( sōtēr- (stem of sōtḗr ) deliverer + -ia -y 3 ) + -o- + -logy
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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 • Jan. 26, 2021
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 • Aug. 13, 2019
“My statement is not a statement on soteriology or trinitarian theology, but one of embodied piety.”
From New York Times • Oct. 13, 2016
This group of Epistles is mainly devoted to soteriology, or the method by which God saves man.
From The Books of the New Testament by Pullan, Leighton
The Reformers concentrated their criticism upon the anthropology and soteriology of the Church of Rome, and especially upon the discipline and worship connected therewith.
From Jacob Behmen an appreciation by Whyte, Alexander
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