Soteriology (/soʊˌtɪriˈɒlədʒi/; Greek: σωτηρία sōtēria "salvation" from σωτήρ sōtēr "savior, preserver" and λόγος logos "study" or "word") is the study...

Sanskrit moksha or Prakrit mokkha refers to the liberation or salvation of a soul from saṃsāra, the cycle of birth and death. It is a blissful state of...

reformed. Some Reformed Baptists accept reformed theology, especially soteriology, but do not hold to a specific confession or to covenant theology. Though...

substitution theory and moral influence theory. Variant views on salvation (soteriology) are among the main fault lines dividing the various Christian denominations...

Augustinian soteriology, influenced by Augustine of Hippo early engagements with Stoicism, Neoplatonism, and Manichaeism, played a crucial role in shaping...

The Yoga Sutras of Patañjali (IAST: Patañjali yoga-sūtras) is a collection of Sanskrit sutras (aphorisms) on the theory and practice of yoga – 195 sutras...

Ramanuja ([ɽaːmaːnʊdʑɐ]; Middle Tamil: Rāmāṉujam; Classical Sanskrit: Rāmānuja; c. 1077 – 1157), also known as Ramanujacharya, was an Indian Hindu philosopher...

Adoption, in Christian theology, is the reception of a believer into the family of God. In the Reformed ordo salutis ("order of salvation"), adoption is...

sin and its consequences. The academic study of salvation is called soteriology. In Abrahamic religions and theology, salvation is the saving of the...

despite being opposed to Origen, was influenced by Origenism in his soteriology. Although he taught that the Devil and the unbelieving will be eternally...

schools of Hindu philosophy and their literature on spirituality and soteriology. The word darshana, also in the forms of darśana or darshanam, comes...

theology of the person, and a principally recapitulative and therapeutic soteriology. The Eastern Orthodox Church considers itself to be the one, holy, catholic...

Origenism refers to a set of beliefs attributed to the Christian theologian Origen. The main principles of Origenism include allegorical interpretation...

Valentinianism was one of the major Gnostic Christian movements. Founded by Valentinus in the 2nd century AD, its influence spread widely, not just within...

John Wycliffe (/ˈwɪklɪf/; also spelled Wyclif, Wickliffe, and other variants; c. 1328 – 31 December 1384) was an English scholastic philosopher, Christian...

Thomasine is a name given to a Syrian Christian group that originated in the first or the second century, who especially revered the apostle Thomas and...

The Gospel Halls are a group of independent Christian assemblies throughout the world that fellowship with each other through a set of shared Biblical...

Asha (/ˈʌʃə/) or arta (/ˈɑːrtə/; Avestan: 𐬀𐬴𐬀 Aṣ̌a / Arta) is a Zoroastrian concept with a complex and highly nuanced range of meaning. It is commonly...

imminent Second Coming (advent) of Jesus Christ, and its annihilationist soteriology. The denomination grew out of the Millerite movement in the United States...

According to the American New Testament scholar Thomas R. Schreiner, the soteriology of the Odes is highly grace oriented being underlined by a doctrine of...

Quotation Reality is twofold: independent and dependent things. The Lord Vishnu is the only independent thing. Madhvacharya (IAST: Madhvācārya; pronounced...

Ranganathan, Lead Section, 2c. Substantive Theses. Ranganathan, 4. Rāmānuja's Soteriology Kulke & Rothermund 1998, p. 139 Seshadri 1996, p. 297 Jha 2022, p. 217...

New York Press, ISBN 978-0-7914-2217-5, p. 64; "Central to Buddhist soteriology is the doctrine of not-self (Pali: anattā, Sanskrit: anātman, the opposed...

Reexamining Jhana: Towards a Critical Reconstruction of Early Buddhist Soteriology, UMCS Salgado, Nirmala S. (November 2013), Buddhist Nuns and Gendered...

Pauline Christianity Main interests Torah, Christology, eschatology, soteriology, ecclesiology Notable ideas Pauline privilege, Law of Christ, Holy Spirit...

to manifest his glory.: 92  Charles Ryrie writes that dispensational soteriology focuses on man's salvation as the means God uses to glorify himself.: 40 ...

of the Four Noble Truths, when "insight" became central to Buddhist soteriology, especially in Theravada Buddhism. Right Resolve (samyaka-saṃkalpa/sammā-saṅkappa)...

Joseph (Hebrew: יוסף, romanized: Yosef; Greek: Ἰωσήφ, romanized: Ioséph) was a 1st-century Jewish man of Nazareth who, according to the canonical Gospels...

The theology of the Seventh-day Adventist Church resembles early Protestant Christianity, combining elements from Lutheran, Wesleyan-Arminian, and Anabaptist...

creator of the material world and the transcendent ultimate God, and a soteriology based around knowledge. Sethian Gnostics considered themselves the descendants...