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(theology) The doctrine, laid down by Duns Scotus and maintained by the Arminians, that the satisfaction rendered by Christ was not in itself really a true or full equivalent, but was merely accepted by God, through his gracious goodwill, as sufficient.
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One who believes in the Second Advent (usually known as the Second Coming) of Jesus; an advocate of Adventism.
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(Christianity) Of or relating to amillennialism.
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(Christianity) A view in Christian eschatology that rejects the claimed future thousand-year physical reign of Jesus Christ on the earth, in opposition to premillennial and some postmillennial views of the Book of Revelation, chapter 20, claiming instead that the number of years in Revelation 20 is a symbolic number and that Christ's eventual physical reign will be permanent.
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A believer in amillennialism.
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(theology, rare) Relating to amillennialism.
adv
In the manner of the Anabaptists.
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(theology) The Christian doctrine that sinners are permanently destroyed rather than being confined to Hell.
adj
Synonym of premillennial
n
(Christianity) Revelation (last book of the Bible, composed of twenty-two chapters, which narrates the end of times)
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(religion) A belief or doctrine based on apocalypse, especially which believes in an imminent end to the current world order.
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(religion) The doctrine that all souls will enter heaven or paradise, (Christianity) an Origenist doctrine condemned by the 543 C.E. Synod of Constantinople.
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(Christianity) Belief in the coming Armageddon.
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(theology, often with capitalized initial) The reconciliation of God and mankind through the death of Jesus.
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(religion) The belief that salvation is attained through oneself and not an external agency
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In a baptismal way; through baptism.
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To dedicate or christen.
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In a catechetical manner; by question and answer.
adv
In a Catholic manner; in terms of Catholicism.
adv
In a Catholic manner, in terms of Catholicism; Catholically.
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(theology) The concept, amongst most Christians, that the works of the Holy Spirit (speaking in tongues, prophecy, healing, and miracles) ceased at some point in history.
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(Christianity, typically derogatory) Synonym of millenarian: a person who believes the Second Coming of Jesus Christ will involve his physical rule on Earth for 1000 years.
adj
(India) defined by religious ideas; based on religion
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The doctrine that salvation after death is conditional
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The doctrine of consubstantiation.
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The concept, especially amongst charismatic Christians, that the works of the Holy Spirit (speaking in tongues, prophecy, healing, and miracles) continue in the modern world.
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(theology) The Roman Catholic, Arminian and Socinian doctrine that the human will cooperates with the divine in the matter of saving grace.
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(theology) An interpretive framework for the Bible, viewing the history (and future) of God's dealings with humankind through the lens of the various covenants described in the Scriptures.
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(Christianity) A theology that stresses the importance of the decision to become a Christian for salvation. Often this decision takes the form of the sinner's prayer.
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(Christianity) A theology that stresses the importance of the decision to become a Christian for salvation. Often this decision takes the form of the sinner's prayer.
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(countable, religion) A class, or society of individuals, called by the same name; a sect or religious subgroup.
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(religion) A Protestant evangelical theology rooted in the writings of John Nelson Darby.
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(theology) The part of theology dealing with the theoretical truths of faith concerning God and God's works, especially the official theology recognized by an organized Church body.
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An Edenic state of existence.
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(Christianity) The days leading up to the second coming of the Messiah (Christ), when the world will be judged.
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Alternative form of end times [(Christianity) The days leading up to the second coming of the Messiah (Christ), when the world will be judged.]
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(theology) The belief that good works are necessary for salvation.
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(uncountable) The study of the end times — the end of the world, notably in Christian and Islamic theology, the second coming of Christ, the Apocalypse, or the Last Judgment.
adv
In an evangelistic manner.
adj
(theology, religious studies) based on religious faith
n
(theology) A concept of grace as a gift given freely by God, without regard to entitlement or merit.
n
(Christianity) Eschatological interpretations associating some Biblical prophecies with future events yet to be fulfilled, including the Second Coming.
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(Christianity, chiefly in the plural) A person's beneficent action or deed, especially one of a charitable nature that advances one's progress toward salvation.
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(theology) The part of theology dealing with the nature and effects of sin.
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(Christianity) The theology or study of sin.
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(theology) History seen as the work of God's salvation. (Especially, in Christianity, the history of the Old Testament, seen as a preparation for the coming of Christ.)
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(theology) A branch of Protestant theology that emphasizes limited atonement to the point of exclusively proselytizing to the elect and/or denying the responsibility of humanity in salvation.
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A belief in the inerrancy of religious scripture.
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(theology) A doctrine held by certain Calvinists holding that, while the fall of man was inevitable, the identities of the elect and the reprobate were not known until after the fall.
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(Christianity) Between the first and second advents of Jesus Christ.
adj
(Christianity) Pertaining to the time between the writing of Malachi and the writing of the New Testament, roughly the last four centuries BCE and first half of the first century.
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(theology) A Christian doctrine, one of the five points of Calvinism, stating that the salvific benefit Jesus Christ's substitutionary atonement on the cross is extended to those predestined unto salvation, without any possibility of Satan or sin successfully defeating God's election.
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(uncountable, Christianity) The rule of God over the world in the future; especially, according to those believing in millenarianism, during a period of peace beginning with the second coming of Jesus Christ and lasting a millennium.
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(religion) A belief that salvation is attained or maintained by adherence to the requirements of moral law; salvation by works rather than by faith alone.
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After the manner of the Levites; in accordance with levitical law.
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(theology) A doctrine, one of the five points of Calvinism, stating that Jesus Christ's substitutionary atonement on the cross is limited in scope to those who are predestined unto salvation, which is conferred only to believers.
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(Christianity, theology) a means by which God gives grace, usually considered to include both word and sacrament, and often other ways as well
n
(Christianity) One who believes that all righteous Christians will be transported bodily to Heaven partway through the Tribulation, before the worst occurrences.
adj
(Christianity) Pertaining to the belief in an impending period of one thousand years of peace and righteousness associated with the Second Coming of Christ.
n
A belief in a coming religious millennium, especially (Christianity) the belief in a coming thousand-year reign of peace heralded by the Second Coming of Christ; utopianism, belief in a coming era of peace and prosperity.
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A believer in millennialism.
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Synonym of millenarianism
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(obsolete) millenarianist
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(Christianity) One who followed the calculations of William Miller or his followers that the world would end on October 22, 1844; when it did not, the Great Disappointment occurred. The subsequent denominations his movement spawned include the Adventists, Jehovah's Witnesses and the (Campbellite) Restorationists.
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(historical) A religious doctrine attempting to reconcile the providence of God with human free will.
n
(theology) A Christian position holding that God, through the Holy Spirit, works to bring about effectually the salvation of individuals through spiritual regeneration without cooperation from the individual.
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(theology) One who relies on faith alone without works for salvation.
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(especially Christianity) sufficient in all things
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(theology) A series of conceptual steps within the Christian doctrine of salvation.
adv
In a religiously orthodox way; in accordance with accepted religious doctrine.
n
A secular belief system having certain aspects of religion.
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The second coming of Christ.
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(Christianity, Judaism, theology) The principle that only certain people are chosen by God for salvation.
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(Christianity) A Christian belief that denies the view of original sin and the necessity of grace, asserting that man is capable of achieving salvation by his own efforts.
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(theology) A Christian doctrine, one of the five points of Calvinism, stating that true believers in Jesus Christ's substitutionary atonement on the cross (the "saints") cannot relapse and are predestined to salvation.
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Alternative spelling of postmillennial [(Christianity) Pertaining to the belief that the Second Coming will take place after the millennium.]
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One who believes in postmillennialism.
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(Christianity) Pertaining to the belief that the Second Coming will take place after the millennium.
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A proponent of postmillennialism.
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(Christianity) One who believes that all righteous Christians will not be transported bodily to Heaven but rather received or gathered in the air by Christ, to establish the Kingdom of God on earth after the Tribulation.
adj
Alternative spelling of premillennial [(Christianity) Pertaining to the belief that the Second Coming will take place before the millennium.]
n
(Calvinism, specifically) The doctrine that certain people have been elected for salvation, and sometimes also that others are destined for reprobation.
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The belief in predestination.
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Before the coming of a messiah.
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One who believes in the advent of Christ before the new millennium.
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A concept in Christian eschatology that the Second Coming of Christ will happen before the millennium.
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One who believes in premillennialism.
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(theology) The view, in Christianity, that unregenerate people can take steps (such as praying, or reading the Bible) in preparation for conversion, and should be exhorted to do so.
adv
In a presbyterian manner.
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(theology) A Christian eschatological view that interprets Biblical prophecies as events which happened in the first century C.E..
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(theology) The doctrine that God passes over the non-elect in electing to eternal life those predestinated to salvation.
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(Christianity) Before the Tribulation.
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(Christianity) One who believes that all righteous Christians will be transported bodily to Heaven before the Tribulation begins.
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(Christianity, theology) An Arminian doctrine distinctive to Methodism and the broader Wesleyan movement. It holds that man is so fallen that he is utterly incapable of perceiving the need for salvation, but God, in His infinite wisdom, has preveniently extended to humankind sufficient grace that we can, through free will, willingly accept salvation.
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(Christianity) A theological subject of research, within Christian pneumatology, dealing with the procession of the Holy Spirit.
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(theology) The death of Christ as a basis for the forgiveness of sin.
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The adherence to or practice of those beliefs which help to define the root of being.
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(Christianity) a prophesied sudden removal of Christian believers from the Earth before the Tribulation or simultaneous with the second coming of Jesus Christ
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(theology) The symmetry provided by Christ's life to the teachings of the Old Testament; the summation of human experience in Jesus Christ.
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(Christianity) The end of estrangement between a human and God as a result of atonement.
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(theology) The doctrine that all of humanity was redeemed through the death and resurrection of Jesus Christ and that the redemption of all was completed and concluded in Jesus's resurrection, and that there was no further need for scriptural fulfillment thereafter.
adj
Superficially religious, especially in an affected or sentimental way.
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(theology) The receiving of a sinner to divine favor.
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(theology) The view that Christian salvation is possible only for those who have heard about the gospel of Jesus and put their faith in Jesus prior to their death.
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(theology) The belief that observance of the sacraments is necessary for salvation, or belief in their efficacy.
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(religion) The process of being saved, the state of having been saved (from hell).
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A belief system that places the responsibility for the fulfillment of humanity outside itself, usually in the hands of a deity.
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Relating to the doctrine of salvation.
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Obsolete form of salvation. [(religion) The process of being saved, the state of having been saved (from hell).]
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(Christianity) The quality of being saved, or rescued from the consequences of sin.
adj
(theology) That saves someone from damnation; redemptive.
n
(theology) God's grace or blessing, enabling sinners to attain salvation.
adv
(religion) So as to be finally saved from eternal death.
n
Tendency to promote religious salvation.
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Alternative form of saviorism [Belief in a savior.]
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(theology) The difficulty of regarding a single individual human (Jesus) as being the saviour for all humans.
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(Christianity) One who lives in expectation of a second coming of Christ to establish a personal kingdom on earth.
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Alternative letter-case form of second coming [(Christianity) The prophesied return of Jesus Christ.]
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A Christian theological and soteriological school of thought on salvation, holding that the beginning of faith is an act of free will, while the increase of faith is the work of God.
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(religion) The doctrine that salvation is conveyed by the grace and goodwill of God, as a free gift, without merit on the part of the sinner.
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A person who believes that faith alone (as opposed to good deeds) brings salvation.
adj
Of or pertaining to (usually Christian) salvation.
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(theology) The study or doctrine of salvation.
adj
Southern Baptist (attributive)
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(theology) A doctrine held by certain Calvinists that God predestined the fall of man.
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The theological doctrine that salvation is brought about by a combination of human will and divine grace
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(theology) The Christian doctrine that there is a time limit for repentance from sin, after which God no longer wills the conversion and salvation of the sinner.
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(rare) God-loving, god-loving.
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(Christianity) The Calvinist doctrine that all human action is tainted by original sin.
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(Christian eschatology) (A period of) persecution before the Second Coming, lasting seven years, which Christians will experience worldwide which will purify and strengthen them.
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(theology) A Christian doctrine, one of the five points of Calvinism, stating that Jesus Christ's substitutionary atonement on the cross is extended to those predestined to become a believer, at God's discretion and without condition.
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In an unepiscopal manner.
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An internationally widespread religious belief system which has become generally recognized as having independent status from any other religion, but which nonetheless may have many, sometimes mutually antagonistic, sects or denominations.
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An "open-source religion"; a communal belief system based on rational inquiry, empiricism, and science, whose sense of authority emerges from the group via consensus.
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