Salvation as regeneration and spiritual awakening
Salvation involves spiritual correction, moral regeneration, and growing perception of divine truth.
What it is: Salvation is understood as process of regeneration, transformation of thought, and victory over error, sin, and limitation.
How the tradition understands it: The focus does not fall only on juridical forgiveness, but on progressive awakening to the reality of God and to the true spiritual identity of the human being.
Basis and context: This understanding is linked to the biblical language of new birth, redemption, and liberation, reinterpreted in its own metaphysical key.
Debates and variations: There is external debate about how much this formulation distances itself from traditional Protestant soteriology.
Supportive
2 Corinthians 5:17
New creation in Christ.
Reference: 2 Corinthians 5:17.
Content: The text speaks of the new creation in Christ.
Use in debate: Important for salvation, regeneration, and spiritual change.
Luke 17:21
The Kingdom of God is among or within you.
Reference: Luke 17:21.
Content: Jesus speaks of the Kingdom of God in interior or present sense.
Use in debate: Important for spiritual and non-external readings of salvation.
Revelation 21:4
End of suffering, pain, and death.
Reference: Revelation 21:4.
Content: The text speaks of the end of mourning, pain, and death in divine consummation.
Use in debate: Used in readings of the victory of divine truth over suffering and death.