Soteriology

Which do you like better about your religion, the soteriology or the eschatology?

Soteriology treats of the divine agency in salvation.

BY the Soteriology of the Bible we mean the Doctrine of the Messiah's mediatorial work for man's salvation, as gradually revealed in Holy Scripture.

All our theology, all our Christology, all our soteriology, all our doctrine of sin and salvation, of sacrifice, of atonement, of priesthood, of prayer, of worship, of world redemption, are colored through and through with Jewish concepts and bear upon them the inextinguishable evidence of their debt to those whose genius for religion justifies their title to be in a very real sense the chosen people of God.

1998 [Mohr Siebeck], Timo Eskola, Theodicy and Predestination in Pauline Soteriology, 2018, Wipf and Stock, page 302, As we have seen during this study, most interpreters of Paul's theology have concluded that his soteriology is of a mystical nature.

2012, Richard Lints, 11: Soteriology, Kelly M. Kapic, Bruce L. McCormack (editors), Mapping Modern Theology, Baker Publishing Group (Baker Academic), page 264, Transformationist soteriologies in the nineteenth century supposed that the transformation of individuals by the gospel surely impacted their relation to God while relational soteriologies of the same period inevitably discussed the implications of Christianity upon the character of those who believed it.

The issue of soteriology in the fourth gospel remains vexed.