(n.) The act of saving; preservation or deliverance from destruction, danger, or great calamity.
(n.) The redemption of man from the bondage of sin and liability to eternal death, and the conferring on him of everlasting happiness.
(n.) Saving power; that which saves.
Example Sentences:
(1) This is a moral swamp, but it's one the Salvation Army claims to be stepping into out of charity .
(2) She says even before the SBS report went to air she had tried to alert her boss at the Salvation Army to the abuse, because she felt staff at the centre were not doing all they could to prevent it from happening again.
(3) About 100 people put in résumés for a casual – and low-paid – job at the Salvation Army homeless shelter.
(4) In tracts and treatises they furiously debated such issues as the nature of man, the powers of God, and the true path to salvation.
(5) According to internet security experts our salvation lies in passwords.
(6) One is why people become entranced by the idea of the end of times, and the other is how they make sense after the event, when the predictions of salvation and catastrophe have failed to materialise.
(7) For the Salvation Army and the careworn guys outside the unused Saint Martin station, however, there are much more important priorities.
(8) In Australia, where an estimated 54,000 of Asia-Pacific’s 21 million-plus domestic workers are based, a Salvation Army report catalogued 16-hour days without breaks, non-payment of wages and physical violence.
(9) As evidence of this new-found fondness, the album features a guest appearance from a local Salvation Army band.
(10) Born into a Salvation Army family, Taylor became a "junior soldier" aged five, pledging allegiance to the charity – the organisation has a military-style structure – and by 16, she was a senior soldier.
(11) That television news report by the BBC's Michael Buerk in 1984 framed Ethiopia for a generation as a place of famine and in need of salvation.
(12) In July, PNG police arrested G4S guard Louie Efi and Salvation Army worker Joshua Kaluvia, charging them both with Barati’s murder.
(13) Community groups such as the Salvation Army have warned: “These laws will disproportionately affect marginalised young people, people experiencing homelessness, poverty and mental health issues.” They fear that the vulnerable people might be excluded from public spaces by the new system, but have nowhere else to go, and find themselves imprisoned as a result.
(14) Passages in the Bible attribute one and the same 'life' ('soul') to both (Book of Proverbs 12: 10) and presuppose 'salvation' or 'preservation' of the two (Psalm 36:7c).
(15) We’re not very kind to people who come up with their hand out and say, ‘Where’s your shelter?’” Indeed, every day, newcomers to Williston get off the bus or train and wander up Main Street to the Salvation Army, expecting to stay there while they find work or an apartment.
(16) Sure enough, a block later, there are a group of people waiting for the doors of the Salvation Army to open at 10pm.
(17) Tory grandees visibly winced on television as the scale of the defeat sank in - and Basildon, symbol of their salvation among Essex voters in 1992, went Labour on a 15 per cent swing.
(18) Suddenly, China’s stock exchanges have become wards of the Chinese Communist party – and their fate hardly bodes well for Xi’s declaration that the nation’s economic salvation will lie in allowing market forces to play a greater role in the allocation of resources.
(19) She recalls being pleased when an older male Salvation Army member was friendly at the charity's local youth club.
(20) It felt like an adventure.” In London, Ali Abuzeid helped to set up the National Front for the Salvation of Libya.
Soteriology
Definition:
(n.) A discourse on health, or the science of promoting and preserving health.