soteriological

From soteriology +‎ -ical, after German soteriologisch.

• (UK) IPA^(key): /səʊtɪəɹɪə(ʊ)ˈlɒdʒɪk(ə)l/

soteriological (comparative more soteriological, superlative most soteriological)

1. (theology) Pertaining to soteriology.
   • 2003, Edward Slingerland, Effortless Action: Wu-wei As Conceptual Metaphor and Spiritual Ideal in Early China, Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 12:

     Despite common metaphorical formulations of the wu-wei ideal, each of the texts I will examine presents its own soteriological strategy for realizing wu-wei in practice, and these soteriological strategies are themselves formulated in terms of conceptual metaphor.

   • 2009, Diarmaid MacCulloch, A History of Christianity, Penguin, published 2010, page 608:

     In fact he continued to accept Purgatory's existence until around 1530, when he finally realized that his soteriological revolution had abolished it (his change of mind demanded a certain amount of re-editing of some of his earlier writings).