Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- As a savior; so as to procure safety or salvation.
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- adverb For the purpose of
salvation .
Etymologies
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Examples
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Many (but not all) of the schools of Hinduism required that adherents become virtuoso readers of texts held to be salvifically efficacious, texts that would teach virtuosos about the right (and wrong) cognitive habits and practices that led to mokṣa (or led to rebirth).
Deepak Sarma: Should Hindus Study Hinduism? Deepak Sarma 2011
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Basically, the Holy Spirit applies general revelation (information known to all people at all times via creation and conscience) and applies it salvifically with the aid of prevenient grace.
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Epistemology in a deeply Lukan sense is instead but the way we come to know through a pattern of life how Jesus 'universal Lordship shapes salvifically the totality of human existence.
Euangelion 2009
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Not only is the left salvifically invested in him, they secretly fear they have been too rash to the altar call.
Latest Articles 2008
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There is but one who died salvifically [127] for us, and able to say unto death, hitherto shalt thou go and no farther; only one enlivening death, which makes gardens of graves, and that which was sowed in corruption to arise and flourish in glory: when death itself shall die, and living shall have no period; when the damned than mourn at the funeral of death; when life not death shall be the wages of sin; when the second death shall prove
Christian Morals 1605-1682 1863
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