soteriology

Noun

soteriology (countable and uncountable, plural soteriologies)

1. The study or doctrine of salvation.
   • BY the Soteriology of the Bible we mean the Doctrine of the Messiah's mediatorial work for man's salvation, as gradually revealed in Holy Scripture.1876, John Pilkington Norris, Rudiments of Theology, E. P. Dutton, page 172
   • All our theology, all our Christology, all our soteriology, all our doctrine of sin and salvation, of sacrifice, of atonement, of priesthood, of prayer, of worship, of world redemption, are colored through and through with Jewish concepts and bear upon them the inextinguishable evidence of their...1938 February, George Craig Stewart, “An Epistle to the Gentiles”, in The Atlantic, →ISSN