Soteriology
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Soteriology is the study of religious doctrines of salvation.
Salvation theory occupies a place of special significance in many religions.[1] In the academic field of religious studies, soteriology is understood by scholars as representing a key theme in a number of different religions and is often studied in a comparative context; that is, comparing various ideas about what salvation is and how it is obtained.
Other religions
Shinto and Tenrikyo similarly emphasize working for a good life by cultivating virtue or virtuous behavior.[citation ^needed]
In an age that still saw salvation as primarily collective - based on the religion of the family, clan, or state - rather than the emerging province of the individualclarification (as popularized by Buddhism and the mystery religions such as [Mithraism).
Hellenistic ruler cults from about 300 BCE sometimes promoted the revering of a king as the savior of his people.
Prominent examples included
- Ptolemy I Soter of Egypt and the Seleucids
- Antiochus I Soter and
- Demetrius I Soter.
In the Egyptian context, the deification of a ruler was built on traditional pharaonic religious ideas.
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