[f. Gr. σωτηρία preservation, salvation, or ad. G. soteriologie, F. sotériologie. Cf. SOTERIALOGY.]
1. (See quot.) rare–0.
1847. Webster, Soteriology, a discourse on health, or the science of promoting and preserving health. [Hence in later Dicts.]
2. Theol. The doctrine of salvation.
1864. W. G. T. Shedd, Hist. Chr. Doctr., II. 204. It was reserved for the Protestant church … to bring the doctrines of Soteriology to a correspondent degree of expansion.
a. 1880. W. L. McFarlan, in Scotch Serm., 237. The whole of the eschatology of the schoolmen,… like their soteriology and their ontology, seems to the modern theologian … untenable.
