Sentence examples for which salvation from inspiring English sources

The means by which salvation might be achieved has been closely related to the manner in which salvation has been conceived and to what has been deemed to be the cause of the human need of it.

In the original paradise there was a covenant of works by which salvation was promised for perfect obedience.

After sin made obedience impossible for man, the covenant of works was "abrogated" by the covenant of grace, by which salvation was given as a free gift of God.

Contrary to the ascetic emancipation methods of other groups, the Tantrists emphasize the activation and sublimation of the possibilities of their own body, without which salvation is believed to be beyond reach.

Decisive in the parallel is the contrast between the disobedience of, by which sin came into the world, and the obedience of Christ, by which salvation from sin was accomplished (Romans 5 12 19).

Thus, if the state of existence after salvation is continuous with the present life, as in the Abrahamic religions, then the monastic will have less prominence than would be had in belief systems, such as those of South Asia, in which salvation implies a different state that cancels finitude and eradicates all traces of separate individual existence.

Yet science, Gray contends, cannot deliver what we want it to, which is salvation from ourselves.

It gives us a moral universe in which spiritual salvation of this sort does not exist.

Hōnen came under the influence of the Pure Land doctrine, which taught salvation by the mercy of Amida (or Amitābha) Buddha.

He is rightly matched against Keynes in upholding a pure free-market doctrine, in which economic salvation comes through faith not works – and especially not public works.

Thus, the Exodus from Egypt has ever provided the typal imagery in terms of which divine salvation has been conceived, its memory being impressively perpetuated each year by the ritual of the Passover.