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  2. Redemptive suffering - Wikipedia

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    One extreme example of redemptive suffering, which existed in the 13th and 14th centuries in Europe, was the Flagellant movement. As a partial response to the Black Death , these radicals, who were later condemned as heretics in the Catholic Church , engaged in body mortification, usually by whipping themselves, to repent for their sins , which ...

  3. Victim soul - Wikipedia

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    The concept of a victim soul is an unofficial belief derived from interpretations of the Catholic Church teachings on redemptive suffering.A person believes themselves or is considered by others to be chosen by God to suffer more than most, accepting this condition based on the example of Christ's own Passion.

  4. Salvifici doloris - Wikipedia

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    Salvifici doloris ("redemptive suffering") is a February 1984 Apostolic letter by Pope John Paul II. Its theme was suffering in general in the light of the cross and salvific or redemptive suffering in particular. It was issued in connection with the 1983 Holy Jubilee Year of Redemption.

  5. 100 of the Best Quotes from Famous People - AOL

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    Famous people quotes about life. 46. “There is only one certainty in life and that is that nothing is certain.” —G.K. Chesterton (June 1926) 47. “Make it a rule of life never to regret and ...

  6. Flagellant - Wikipedia

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    Redemptive suffering; La Cercha; Nine Emperor Gods Festival. Also referred to as the Phuket Vegetarian Festival, it is famous for its ritualised acts of flagellation, self-wounding, and trance-like ecstasies, as well as its vegetarian food-based fasting.

  7. Salvation - Wikipedia

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    Each individual's plight as a sinner is the result of a fatal choice involving the whole person in bondage, guilt, estrangement, and death. Therefore, salvation must be concerned with the total person. "It must offer redemption from bondage, forgiveness for guilt, reconciliation for estrangement, renewal for the marred image of God." [23]

  8. Substitutionary atonement - Wikipedia

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    The English word atonement originally meant "at-one-ment", i.e. being "at one", in harmony, with someone. [5] According to Collins English Dictionary, it is used to describe the redemption through Jesus' death and resurrection, to reconcile the world to himself, and also of the state of a person having been reconciled to God. [note 4] [6] [7]

  9. Redeemer (Christianity) - Wikipedia

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    This refererences the salvation he accomplished, and is based on the metaphor of redemption, or "buying back". In the New Testament, redemption can refer both to deliverance from sin and to freedom from captivity. [1] Although the gospels do not use the title "Redeemer", the idea of redemption occurs in several of Paul's letters.