There are several (at least eight) main views of salvation that have offered alternative explanations of that pivotal form of evil that defines and shapes other evils. Christianity has interacted with all these views. Summarily, these may be schematized in this way:
The Prime Evil Viewed As, The Sphere of its Evidences, Its Prototype, Salvation Found in.
1. The tyranny of passion, The cosmos, Stoic compliance, Reason.
2. The inability to enjoy, The passions, Epicureanism pleasure, Hedonic enjoyment.
3. Death, The intrinsic vulnerability of life, Hellenism, Immortality.
4. Pain, The feelings, Buddhism, Nirvana.
5. Ignorance, The intellect, Platonism, Philosophy.
6. Property, Class alienation, Marxism, Revolution.
7. Emotive Repression, Neurosis, Freudianism, Psycho-analysis.
8. Sin, The will, Classic Christianity, The Cross.
Oden
The Prime Evil Viewed As, The Sphere of its Evidences, Its Prototype, Salvation Found in.
1. The tyranny of passion, The cosmos, Stoic compliance, Reason.
2. The inability to enjoy, The passions, Epicureanism pleasure, Hedonic enjoyment.
3. Death, The intrinsic vulnerability of life, Hellenism, Immortality.
4. Pain, The feelings, Buddhism, Nirvana.
5. Ignorance, The intellect, Platonism, Philosophy.
6. Property, Class alienation, Marxism, Revolution.
7. Emotive Repression, Neurosis, Freudianism, Psycho-analysis.
8. Sin, The will, Classic Christianity, The Cross.
Oden
