SOTERIOLOGY THE ATONEMENT IN CHRIST PRELIMINARIES THE great facts specially distinctive of Christianity lie in its soteriology. Hence this is the part of theology in which the truth of doctrine most deeply concerns us. 1. Soteriology.—The term soteriology is from σωτηρία and λόγος, and means the doctrine of salvation. The doctrine includes two great facts: an atonement for sin, and a salvation from sin. Underlying these facts there is the great truth of a Saviour, Jesus Christ, who makes the atonement,
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