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2018
This chapter distils from the previous four chapters seven key areas which are identified as crucial for developing a contemporary Christian doctrine of salvation. The ‘shape’ of salvation is presented as an exposition of what one is saved from and for, by whom/what one is saved, and what one is saved into. In filling in this ‘template’ the seven areas
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This chapter distils from the previous four chapters seven key areas which are identified as crucial for developing a contemporary Christian doctrine of salvation. The ‘shape’ of salvation is presented as an exposition of what one is saved from and for, by whom/what one is saved, and what one is saved into. In filling in this ‘template’ the seven areas
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1994
Abstract The word “soteriology” refers to religious doctrines about salvation, especially the means of salvation.1 The word “salvation” implies deliverance or release from an undesirable state of being to one that is qualitatively better—usually from the historical empirical world to another world beyond history.
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Abstract The word “soteriology” refers to religious doctrines about salvation, especially the means of salvation.1 The word “salvation” implies deliverance or release from an undesirable state of being to one that is qualitatively better—usually from the historical empirical world to another world beyond history.
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The Soteriologies of Buddhist Tantrism
Abstract Tantric Buddhist practices, often regarded as transgressive or liminal, diverge from the sedate ways of the monastic establishment and the bodhisattva ideal of selfless altruism. The reconciliation of these quite different paths to enlightenment is one of the landmark intellectual projects of late Buddhism.openaire +2 more sources
1992
The central claim of the transcendency thesis is that karma and nirvana are incompatible, antagonistic, and antithetical. The evidence adduced in support of this claim was reviewed in the last chapter and some fundamental problems were pointed out. The present chapter sets out to provide a more satisfactory account of the relationship between karma and
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The central claim of the transcendency thesis is that karma and nirvana are incompatible, antagonistic, and antithetical. The evidence adduced in support of this claim was reviewed in the last chapter and some fundamental problems were pointed out. The present chapter sets out to provide a more satisfactory account of the relationship between karma and
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1989
It has been self-evident, at least since the axial age, that not all religious persons, practices and beliefs are of equal value. Indeed the great founders and reformers were all acutely dissatisfied with the state of religion around them. Their criticisms have been either metaphysical (as in the case of Gautama, who rejected the prevailing ātman ...
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It has been self-evident, at least since the axial age, that not all religious persons, practices and beliefs are of equal value. Indeed the great founders and reformers were all acutely dissatisfied with the state of religion around them. Their criticisms have been either metaphysical (as in the case of Gautama, who rejected the prevailing ātman ...
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Becoming god: Interpreting Pauline soteriology as deification
Currents in Biblical Research, 2023Michael M C Reardon
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