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2. Regeneration (theology) - Wikipedia

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   Regeneration, while sometimes perceived to be a step in the ordo salutis ('order of salvation'), is generally understood in Christian theology to be the objective work of God in a believer's life. Spiritually, it means that God brings a person to new life (that they are " born again ") from a previous state of separation from God and subjection ...

3. The New Church (Swedenborgian) - Wikipedia

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   New Church adherents believe that "Regeneration" brings salvation. Regeneration is the process by which man is re-born, transitioning from the 'sense-oriented' sinful life he was born into, to a 'spiritual life', where man makes goodness and truth his highest love rather than worldly pleasures, [4] and proceeds to live a life of usefulness and ...

4. Baptismal regeneration - Wikipedia

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   One of the earliest of the Church Fathers to enunciate clearly and unambiguously the doctrine of baptismal regeneration ("the idea that salvation happens at and by water baptism duly administered") was Cyprian (c. 200 – 258): "While he attributed all the saving energy to the grace of God, he considered the 'laver of saving water' the instrument of God that makes a person 'born again ...

5. Born again - Wikipedia

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   In contemporary Christian usage and apart from evangelicalism, the term is distinct from similar terms which are sometimes used in Christianity in reference to a person who is, or is becoming, a Christian. This usage of the term is usually linked to baptism with water and the related doctrine of baptismal regeneration.

6. Ordo salutis - Wikipedia

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   Although within Christian theology there is a certain sense in which the phases of salvation are sequential, [2] some elements are understood to occur progressively and others instantaneously. [3] Furthermore, some steps within the "order of salvation" are regarded as objective (or monergistic ), performed solely by God , while others are ...

7. Monergism - Wikipedia

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   Monergism is the view in Christian theology which holds that the Holy Spirit is the only agent that effects the regeneration of Christians.It is contrasted with synergism; the view that there is a cooperation between the divine and the human in the regeneration process.