soteriological
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From soteriology + -ical, after German soteriologisch.
Pronunciation
[edit]Adjective
[edit]soteriological (comparative more soteriological, superlative most soteriological)
- (theology) Pertaining to soteriology.
- 2003, Edward Slingerland, Effortless Action: Wu-wei As Conceptual Metaphor and Spiritual Ideal in Early China, Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 12:
- Despite common metaphorical formulations of the wu-wei ideal, each of the texts I will examine presents its own soteriological strategy for realizing wu-wei in practice, and these soteriological strategies are themselves formulated in terms of conceptual metaphor.
- 2009, Diarmaid MacCulloch, A History of Christianity, Penguin, published 2010, page 608:
- In fact he continued to accept Purgatory's existence until around 1530, when he finally realized that his soteriological revolution had abolished it (his change of mind demanded a certain amount of re-editing of some of his earlier writings).
Translations
[edit]pertaining to soteriology
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