Meaning of salvific | Babel Free

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Able or intending to provide salvation or redemption.

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“Less well recognized, however, is the central role played in much of early medieval Pure Land⟳ Buddhism by deathbed practices and accompanying beliefs about the radical salvific power of one's last⟳ nenbutsu, whether understood as the contemplation of the Buddha Amitābha (or Amitāyus, Jpn. Amida) or the invocation of his name⟳.”

“2012, Magdalen Ross (translator), Athanasius Schneider, 7: Adoration and the Sacred Liturgy, Alcuin Reid (editor), From Eucharistic Adoration to Evangelization, Continuum Books (Burns & Oates), page 84, The fragrance [of this sacrifice] is the most pleasing perfume, the most holy, the most salvific and the most beautiful; […] .”

“2017, Boris Jakim (translator), Pavel Florensky, Early Religious Writings, 1903-1909, William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, page 149, […] participation in the liturgy is more salvific than the reading of the Bible; the performance of cult is more important than charitable giving.”

“2019, Ernest L. Gibson, Salvific Manhood, University of Nebraska Press⟳, page 93, Nevertheless, as this love⟳ truly begins to show⟳ itself, as the men became more salvific for each other, David pulls back.”

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