I don't know about you guys, but I'm still having trouble with the word "salvific" It just sounds like some kind of unguent to me …. From Wordnik.com. [Knowledge is Power] Reference
Now, I believe I have a salvific mission as a Catholic. From Wordnik.com. [Religious Belief and Public Morality] Reference
The salvific sense being conveyed, in both cases, is virtually interchangeable. From Wordnik.com. [On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...] Reference
In short, an efficacious salvific process makes its participants better people. From Wordnik.com. [Religious Diversity (Pluralism)] Reference
It is priests who are called to perpetuate this salvific mystery from century to century. From Wordnik.com. [The Holy Father's message for World Day of Prayer for Vocations] Reference
There are two kinds of happiness: salvific happiness and the happiness attainable in this life. From Wordnik.com. [John of Salisbury] Reference
And is the granting of a deadline extension a salvific act of grace on the part of one's professor?. From Wordnik.com. [trinityboy Diary Entry] Reference
Truth-telling is medicinal, liberating, and ultimately salvific for both the speaker and the hearer. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2009-05-10] Reference
Although salvific happiness is a higher goal, the secular state, headed by the prince, has its own goals. From Wordnik.com. [John of Salisbury] Reference
Plato inherited from Socrates the conviction that knowledge of goodness has a salvific effect upon human life. From Wordnik.com. [Plato's Timaeus] Reference
The deformation helps us wonder: does the apostrophic act represent a strange fantasy about art's salvific power?. From Wordnik.com. [Deforming Keat's 'Ode on a Grecian Urn'] Reference
We need the lesson he is teaching us: that suffering is not useless; that it can have meaning, and salvific power. From Wordnik.com. [The first noble truth and its transcendance in the media....] Reference
Christ's suffering in such a way that our suffering too is salvific, and perhaps even essential to the plan of salvation. From Wordnik.com. [Warranted Christian Belief] Reference
Other philosophers, however, have attempted to make a moral case for salvific pluralism (or at least against salvific exclusivism.). From Wordnik.com. [Religious Diversity (Pluralism)] Reference
Why do so many of us get off on feeling so persecuted,while at the same time believing that our message will be salvific for UUism?. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2007-09-01] Reference
Why, though, ought we consider this pluralistic salvific hypothesis more plausible than that offered by the exclusivist or inclusivist?. From Wordnik.com. [Religious Diversity (Pluralism)] Reference
Seeming transformational parity is not, however, Hick's only reason for believing non-pluralistic salvific perspectives to be untenable. From Wordnik.com. [Religious Diversity (Pluralism)] Reference
I have no doubt that this idée fixe of the Democrats -- their ardent faith in the salvific power of diplomacy -- will be tried and found wanting. From Wordnik.com. [Obama Abroad] Reference
In short, Joshi just can't take the contradiction between Lovecraft's "mechanist materialism" and the heroic, almost salvific, narrative of the story. From Wordnik.com. [Kenneth Hite's Journal] Reference
We must admit the difficulty of building relationships when one assumes that, in the eyes of the other, one's convictions are false and without salvific value. From Wordnik.com. [Archbishop Hosts Annual Inter Faith Lecture] Reference
This, to my thinking, is more useful than 'memes' to help explain human behaviour, not to mention that Girard's ideas give new meaning to xtian salvific theology. From Wordnik.com. [Books Most Important to You] Reference
This is not to say, of course, it is acknowledged, that all the details of all the salvific paths are actually true since some of the relevant claims are inconsistent. From Wordnik.com. [Religious Diversity (Pluralism)] Reference
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