redemptive
Speech parts
1. redemptive - Adjective
2. redemptive - Adjective Satellite
Meaning
Serving or tending to redeem; redeeming; as, the redemptive work of Christ.
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saving faith
redemptive (or redeeming) love
a redemptive theory about life
Andy Crouch spoke at Praxis, a conference on redemptive entrepreneurship, and he said, “How we spend our lives influences the culture we build, and we are in turn shaped by the culture that we influence.”
A classic work of American literature that has not stopped changing minds and lives since it burst onto the literary scene, The Things They Carried is a ground-breaking meditation on war, memory, imagination, and the redemptive power of storytelling.
Courage, dignity, altruism and loyalty were morally redemptive; Lucian idealised this principle in his story of Sisinnes, who voluntarily fought as a gladiator, earned 10,000 drachmas and used it to buy freedom for his friend, Toxaris.