Unless I misunderstand and wrongly limit soteriology, I don't think that's it. I thought it was concerned with doctrines of salvation only. Though MAYBE in Orthodoxy that is different from what I was taught before? Maybe more all inclusive?
It makes SENSE that soteriology would include more that just "man fell and needed saving" from that end of human history. But would a study of Orthodox soteriology include things like why God created things, how God interacted with Satan and why as a result of the angelic revolt and human fall, etc?
If you have a moment, maybe you could glance at the post I linked to. It's long though. But those are the kinds of things I'm trying to incorporate. Did Satan have any right to demand anything of God as a result of man's fall and for the purpose of our salvation, and were God's hands essentially tied in any effort to simply do/undo effects or power structures - I disagree with almost everything the person wrote along these lines - he seems to think God's authority hinges on some set of intellectual points rather than the fact that He is the almighty Creator, uncreated and of unknowable Essence, etc.
I'm interested most especially in how we would reply, and how we know what we know. Again, not really in time for that post, but I've been wanting to get more carefully and deeply into these things - whatever we do teach - and don't want to misrepresent.
I'm more familiar within Orthodoxy that God is the Creator, man fell and thus became like a sickness, death was the result of separation from God the source of life, God desires to heal us of the effects of sin, Christ destroyed death, and we are to become partakers of the divine nature.
I don't know where any authority of Satan and requirements upon God and such things fit in, or where they can. Is it just too different?
