Concept
Salvation in Christianity
Overview
term in Christianity, that means saving of the soul from sin and its consequences
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And it is besides evident in reason, that since Death and Misery, were the punishments of Sin, the discharge of Sinne, must also be a discharge of Death and Misery; that is to say, Salvation absolute, such as the faithfull are to enjoy after the day of Judgment, by the power, and favour of Jesus Christ, who for that cause is called our SAVIOUR.
Thomas Hobbes, Leviathan
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And it is called the second death because it follows the first, which sunders the two cohering essences, whether these be God and the soul, or the soul and the body. Of the first and bodily death, then, we may say that to the good it is good, and evil to the evil. But, doubtless, the second, as it happens to none of the good, so it can be good for none. 3. _Whether death, which by the sin of our first parents has…
of Hippo Augustine, The City of God, Volume I
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Such things as these are incorruptible by their very nature. Secondly, a thing is incorruptible in its form, inasmuch as being by nature corruptible, yet it has an inherent disposition which preserves it wholly from corruption; and this is called incorruptibility of glory; because as Augustine says (Ep. ad Dioscor.): "God made man's soul of such a powerful nature, that from its fulness of beatitude, there redounds…
Aquinas Thomas, Summa Theologica, Part I
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Philosophers who discussed Salvation in Christianity
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Opposing perspectives
Place in the tradition
Part of Fundamentalism.
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