soteriological
Adjective
Meaning
of or relating to soteriology
Source: WordNetSynonyms
Examples
Philosophical orientation Philosophy in India was aimed mainly at spiritual liberation and had soteriological goals.
Religion offers people soteriological answers, or answers that provide opportunities for salvation – relief from suffering, and reassuring meaning.
The Buddha denied the authority of the Vedas, though like his contemporaries, he affirmed the soteriological importance of having a proper understanding of reality ('right view').
The disintegration of the Han in the second century CE opened the way for the soteriological doctrines of Buddhism and Taoism to dominate intellectual life at that time.
The soteriological importance of this theory is that by removing the concept of an external world, it also weakens the 'internal' sense of self as observer which is supposed to be separate from the external world.
Thus Nagarjuna's philosophical project is ultimately a soteriological one meant to correct our everyday cognitive processes which mistakenly posits svabhāva on the flow of experience.