Christianity
Mainstream Christian soteriology is the study of how God ends the separation people have from God due to sin by reconciling them with God's self. Many Christians believe they receive the forgiveness of sins, life, and salvation, obtained by Jesus through his incarnation, life, innocent suffering, death, resurrection from the dead, and ascension. Christian soteriology examines how an individual is miraculously saved by divine grace through faith in Jesus Christ, and reconciled to God. Humankind was saved from both physical and spiritual destruction, the resulting condemnation of one's sin.
The different soteriologies found within the Christian tradition can be grouped into distinct schools:
- Orthodox and Catholic Christianity:
- Justification,
- the Church,
- Sacraments, and
- freedom of will
- theosis
- Arminianism,
- Calvinism's predestination, and
- Lutheran doctrine
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