Soteriology

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This lesson comes from Reformed Forum's Reader's Guide to Richard B. Gaffin Jr.'s Resurrection and Redemption, a study in Paul's Soteriology.

It is taught by Drs.

Marcus Minninger and Camden Bucey and was originally recorded for an international reading group cohort.

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Again, we'll get started and work on our conversation or discussion questions here for the second hour.

This is the fifth session of a planned six sessions, and we will be picking back up in two weeks to conclude our book here, Resurrection and Redemption, A Study in Paul's Soteriology, my copy here.

And I'm excited to talk about the material.

The reactive pair of desire, aversion that keeps the consciousness perpetually absorbed in the play of opposites and unable to rest in the unchanging ground of reality which is in the beneath.

Moksha Upaya Vichara or Soteriology.

Liberation comes through Papakshaya

which leads to the Moksha of dvandva moha or nirmukta, freedom from the pull of opposites.

Soteriology is the study of salvation.

That's what it is, the study of salvation.

Soteriologia.

So- soteriology.

Someone says it's a-

Who is man and what is it about man? Why did God mandate man to be the chief steward of earth? And then we now look at things like demonology, the study of Satan, demons, the satanic structure, what was Satan looking for when he came to tempt man, and the fall of man and all of these things.

Then we look at what we call soteriology.

Soteriology is the study of salvation, the entire plan of salvation.

beginning from the fall of man until the resurrection of jesus are we together then we look at pneumatology pneumatology is the study of the ministry the person the ministry and the office of the holy spirit because when jesus died and resurrected He gathered the disciples together and handed them over to the ministry.

So our dispensation, the dispensation of the church age is also the dispensation of the Holy Spirit.

So I told you and I taught you that theology is, is, um, a broad discussion and that many times in studying theology, classically speaking, you have to break it into the various aspects, and they all have theological names just to guide your understanding.

And, um, not to waste your time, the study of salvation, there is a doctrinal study of salvation, and the theological name for it is soteriology, from the word soteria.

When you are studying salvation, there is theology proper, the study of God, the triune nature.

There is demonology.

There is pneumatology, the study of the Holy Spirit.

There is eschatology, the study of the end times.

Now, when you are discussing the matters of salvation, it is called soteriology, from the word soteria, S-O-T-E-R-I-O-L-O-G-Y.

S-O-T-E-R-I-O-L-O-G-Y, soteriology.

And there are, there are other, like, complex conversations about works and works of the law and all of that, uh, that we could get into as well.

Uh, but that just might help you, um, see one way in which, um, I would see problems with Catholic, uh, soteriology.

soteriology.So I wanna make sure that I'm able to kinda hone in on the, the, uh, precise nature of the critique.

I think it actually might be multi-layered if I'm, uh, tracking correctly.

But a- as I hear you describing this, I can imagine one response being like, "Wait a second.