the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
n. A discourse on health, or the science of promoting and preserving health.
n. The doctrine of salvation by Jesus Christ.
The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
n. A discourse on health; the art of promoting and preserving health; hygiene.
n. That branch of theology which treats of the salvation of men through Jesus Christ.
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n. the branch of Christian theology that deals with salvation as the effect of a divine agency
Word Usage
"Thus our soteriology, which is not rooted in "saving" the world, becomes indistinguishable from the soteriology that puts that burden precisely at its heart."