• Soteriology (/soʊˌtɪriˈɒlədʒi/; Greek: σωτηρία sōtēria "salvation" from σωτήρ sōtēr "savior, preserver" and λόγος logos "study" or "word") is the study...
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    reformed. Some Reformed Baptists accept reformed theology, especially soteriology, but do not hold to a specific confession or to covenant theology. Though...
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    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...
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    substitution theory and moral influence theory. Variant views on salvation (soteriology) are among the main fault lines dividing the various Christian denominations...
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  • Augustinian soteriology, influenced by Augustine of Hippo early engagements with Stoicism, Neoplatonism, and Manichaeism, played a crucial role in shaping...
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    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...
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    Ramanuja ([ɽaːmaːnʊdʑɐ]; Middle Tamil: Rāmāṉujam; Classical Sanskrit: Rāmānuja; c. 1017 – 1137), also known as Ramanujacharya, was an Indian Hindu philosopher...
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  • sin and its consequences. The academic study of salvation is called soteriology. In Abrahamic religions and theology, salvation is the saving of the...
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    schools of Hindu philosophy and their literature on spirituality and soteriology. The word darshana, also in the forms of darśana or darshanam, comes...
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  • Valentinianism was one of the major Gnostic Christian movements. Founded by Valentinus in the 2nd century AD, its influence spread widely, not just within...
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    Baptists and Calvinistic Baptists, are Baptists that hold to a Calvinist soteriology (salvation belief). Depending on the denomination, Calvinistic Baptists...
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    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...
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    Origenism refers to a set of beliefs attributed to the Christian theologian Origen. The main principles of Origenism include allegorical interpretation...
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    John Wycliffe (/ˈwɪklɪf/; also spelled Wyclif, Wickliffe, and other variants; c. 1328 – 31 December 1384) was an English scholastic philosopher, Christian...
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    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...
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    The Gospel Halls are a group of independent Christian assemblies throughout the world that fellowship with each other through a set of shared Biblical...
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    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...
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    Jerome (section Soteriology)
    despite being opposed to Origen, was influenced by Origenism in his soteriology. Although he taught that the Devil and the unbelieving will be eternally...
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  • theology of the person, and a principally recapitulative and therapeutic soteriology. The Eastern Orthodox Church considers itself to be the one, holy, catholic...
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    Quotation Reality is twofold: independent and dependent things. The Lord Vishnu is the only independent thing. Madhvacharya (IAST: Madhvācārya; pronounced...
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  • creator of the material world and the transcendent ultimate God, and a soteriology based around knowledge. Sethian Gnostics considered themselves the descendants...
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    imminent Second Coming (advent) of Jesus Christ, and its annihilationist soteriology. The denomination grew out of the Millerite movement in the United States...
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    persons" (zhenren). This is what is often considered salvation in Taoist soteriology. They often are depicted as living simple lives, as craftsmen or hermits...
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    Saint Joseph (category Christian soteriology)
    Joseph (Hebrew: יוסף, romanized: Yosef; Greek: Ἰωσήφ, romanized: Ioséph) was a 1st-century Jewish man of Nazareth who, according to the canonical Gospels...
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  • of Jesus Christ/The Son Pneumatology – the study of The Holy Spirit Soteriology – the study of salvation Ecclesiology – the study of the Christian church...
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    Ranganathan, Lead Section, 2c. Substantive Theses. Ranganathan, 4. Rāmānuja's Soteriology Kulke & Rothermund 1998, p. 139 Seshadri 1996, p. 297 Jha 2022, p. 217...
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    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...
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    of the Four Noble Truths, when "insight" became central to Buddhist soteriology, especially in Theravada Buddhism. Right Resolve (samyaka-saṃkalpa/sammā-saṅkappa)...
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  • 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 ...
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  • 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...
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