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soteriology

[ suh-teer-ee-ol-uh-jee ]

noun

, Theology.
  1. the doctrine of salvation through Jesus Christ.


soteriology

/ sɒˌtɪərɪˈɒlədʒɪ; sɒˌtɪərɪəˈlɒdʒɪk /

noun

  1. theol the doctrine of salvation
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Derived Forms

  • soteriologic, adjective
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Other Words From

  • so·te·re·o·log·ic [s, uh, -teer-ee-, uh, -, loj, -ik], so·tere·o·logi·cal adjective
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Word History and Origins

Origin of soteriology1

1760–70; < Greek sōtērí ( a ) salvation, deliverance ( sōtēr- (stem of sōtḗr ) deliverer + -ia -y 3 ) + -o- + -logy
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Word History and Origins

Origin of soteriology1

C19: from Greek sōtēria deliverance (from sōtēr a saviour) + -logy
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Example Sentences

What does an esoteric concept like Calvinist soteriology have to do with the rise of modern economics?

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.

Marxism provided a soteriology — a theory of salvation — that caused people to die and kill in service to a redemptive ideal.

“My statement is not a statement on soteriology or trinitarian theology, but one of embodied piety.”

But in the sphere of soteriology the legacy of Adoptionism can clearly be seen.

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