{"id":24403,"date":"2019-03-21T07:53:13","date_gmt":"2019-03-21T12:53:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/?p=24403"},"modified":"2019-03-21T07:53:13","modified_gmt":"2019-03-21T12:53:13","slug":"word-of-the-day-459","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2019\/03\/21\/word-of-the-day-459\/","title":{"rendered":"Word Of The Day"},"content":{"rendered":"

Soteriology<\/em>:<\/p>\n

Soteriology<\/b>\u00a0(\/s<\/span>\u0259<\/span>\u02cc<\/span>t<\/span>\u026a\u0259r<\/span>i<\/span>\u02c8<\/span>\u0252<\/span>l<\/span>\u0259<\/span>d\u0292<\/span>i<\/span>\/<\/a><\/span><\/span>;\u00a0Greek<\/a>:\u00a0\u03c3\u03c9\u03c4\u03b7\u03c1\u03af\u03b1<\/a><\/span>\u00a0s\u014dt\u0113ria<\/i><\/i>\u00a0“salvation<\/a>” from\u00a0\u03c3\u03c9\u03c4\u03ae\u03c1<\/a>\u00a0s\u014dt\u0113r<\/i><\/i>\u00a0“savior, preserver” and\u00a0\u03bb\u03cc\u03b3\u03bf\u03c2<\/a>\u00a0logos<\/a><\/i><\/i>\u00a0“study” or “word”[1]<\/a><\/sup>) is the study of\u00a0religious doctrines<\/a>\u00a0of\u00a0salvation<\/a>. Salvation theory occupies a place of special significance in many religions.<\/p>\n

In the academic field of\u00a0religious studies<\/a>, soteriology is understood by scholars as representing a key theme in a number of different religions and is often studied in a comparative context; that is, comparing various ideas about what salvation is and how it is obtained. [Wikipedia<\/strong><\/a>]<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Noted in “Politics is religion, and the right is getting ready for the end times<\/em><\/a>,” Michael Gerson, WaPo<\/em><\/strong>:<\/p>\n

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What I am talking about is the appropriation \u2014 really, the profanation \u2014 of religious ideas to serve ideological purposes. During the 20th\u2009century, this was often the preserve of the left. Marxism provided a soteriology \u2014 a theory of salvation \u2014 that caused people to die and kill in service to a redemptive ideal. It is what made communism so appealing \u2014 and so dangerous. It gave oppression the veneer of idealism.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Soteriology: Soteriology\u00a0(\/s\u0259\u02cct\u026a\u0259ri\u02c8\u0252l\u0259d\u0292i\/;\u00a0Greek:\u00a0\u03c3\u03c9\u03c4\u03b7\u03c1\u03af\u03b1\u00a0s\u014dt\u0113ria\u00a0“salvation” from\u00a0\u03c3\u03c9\u03c4\u03ae\u03c1\u00a0s\u014dt\u0113r\u00a0“savior, preserver” and\u00a0\u03bb\u03cc\u03b3\u03bf\u03c2\u00a0logos\u00a0“study” or “word”[1]) is the study of\u00a0religious doctrines\u00a0of\u00a0salvation. Salvation theory occupies a place of special significance in many religions. In the academic field of\u00a0religious studies, soteriology is understood by scholars as representing a key theme in a number of different religions and is often studied in \u2026 Continue reading → <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24403","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24403","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24403"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24403\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24404,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24403\/revisions\/24404"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24403"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24403"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24403"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}