单词 | salvific |
释义 | salvificadj. Tending to save, causing salvation. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > safety > rescue or deliverance > [adjective] > that rescues or delivers saving?c1425 rescuing1574 salvific1591 salvatory1830 society > faith > aspects of faith > spirituality > salvation, redemption > [adjective] > causing restoringa1398 savinga1400 redemptivec1429 safe-making1550 salvifical1581 redemptory1584 recovering1589 salvific1591 electing1673 1591 R. Bruce Serm. Edinb. v. sig. M2v The mair that this Countrie is watered with that saluifik and heauenlie dewe. a1660 Hammond On Hebr. xiii. 15 The sacrifice of salvifick praise. 1667 E. Waterhouse Short Narr. Fire London 65 There is most use for them, when their presence is salvifique and repulsive. a1711 T. Ken Christophil in Wks. (1721) I. 511 To Souls born blind, their cheerful Sight, The Radiance of Salvifick Light. 1946 R. A. Knox Epist. & Gospels 223 A salvific law, promising life to Israel only, might have seemed to contravene them [sc. the promises of God]; not a purely damnific Law like that of Sinai. 1958 Times Lit. Suppl. 17 Oct. 599/3 Stephen would have seen in the Crucifixion nothing ‘salvific’, but only the latest in a series of crimes committed against the prophets of the pure religion of Moses. 1967 E. R. Fairweather in Clark & Davey Anglican/R.C. Dialogue (1974) iv. 49 Anglican theology has revealed no sympathy with..any other doctrine which would minimize the reality and the salvific role of Christ's human will. 1979 J. Hick in M. Goulder Incarnation & Myth vi. 199 It is no longer acceptable..to assume the salvific uniqueness of one's own religion. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1909; most recently modified version published online June 2019). < |
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