Olli‐pekka Vainio
Biographic Data
| ID | 3891063 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Olli‐pekka Vainio |
| GIVEN NAMES | Olli‐pekka |
| FAMILY NAME | Vainio |
| SIGNATURE | VAINIO O P |
| AFFILIATIONS | Zygon: Journal of Religion and Science |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 2 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 2 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2014 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Salvation and Religious Diversity
This article examines how Christian soteriology has responded to religious diversity. Classical versions of Christianity typically insist on conscious and explicit faith as a necessary requirement for salvation. However, from the beginning, this demand has been mitigated, and different arguments have been provided to ensure the possibility of salvation of those who are outside the church proper. In the first centuries of Christianity, the focus w…
Imago Dei and Human Rationality
There is a pervasive trend in Western theology to identify imago Dei with human intellectual and cognitive capacities. However, several contemporary theologians have criticized this view because, according to the critics, it leads to a truncated view of humanity. In this article, I shall concentrate on the question of rationality, first, through theologies of Thomas Aquinas and contemporary Lutheran Robert Jenson, and second, in some branches of …
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Imago Dei and Human Rationality
There is a pervasive trend in Western theology to identify imago Dei with human intellectual and cognitive capacities. However, several contemporary theologians have criticized this view because, according to the critics, it leads to a truncated view of humanity. In this article, I shall concentrate on the question of rationality, first, through theologies of Thomas Aquinas and contemporary Lutheran Robert Jenson, and second, in some branches of …
Salvation and Religious Diversity
This article examines how Christian soteriology has responded to religious diversity. Classical versions of Christianity typically insist on conscious and explicit faith as a necessary requirement for salvation. However, from the beginning, this demand has been mitigated, and different arguments have been provided to ensure the possibility of salvation of those who are outside the church proper. In the first centuries of Christianity, the focus w…
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