salvific

IPA: sɑɫvˈɪfɪk

Examples of "salvific" in Sentences

I don't know about you guys, but I'm still having trouble with the word "salvific" It just sounds like some kind of unguent to me …
In summary, a well grounded skepticism is needed when scientists cum advocates seek immense governmental funding for their highly leveraged and purportedly salvific visions.
Such a position registers its own anxieties on the fragility of its privilege, and subscribes to its own political theology in cleaving to the salvific power of reason in political life.
Example 2: An excerpt (and note the salvific sense conveyed in the titles alone) from A Vision of the Grail, pub. 1992, in a chapter titled The Code of Codes, by molecular biologist (and Nobelist, no less) Walter Gilbert: