salvation

n. deliverance, redemption; act of saving, act of rescuing; savior, means of deliverance

In theology, salvation can mean three related things:being saved from something, such as suffering or the punishment of sin - also called deliverance;being saved for something, such as an afterlife or participating in the Reign of God - also called redemptionSalvation can also be understood in terms of social liberation, as in liberation theology.The theological study of salvation is called Soteriology and also covers the means by which salvation is effected or achieved, and its results or effects.
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Salvation! is a 1987 film by Beth B. (Beth Billingsly) and starring Exene Cervenka and Stephen McHattie. The film is a spoof of televangelism released right after the real-life Jim Bakker and Jimmy Swaggart scandals. McHattie plays Reverend Randall, a Staten Island-based televangelist who has been bilking his flock and secretly watches pornography while he is rehearing his sermons in his stately home. Cervenka plays Rhonda Stample, a born again believer. After Rhonda's husband, a non-believer, loses his factory job, he and two cousins enlist Rhonda in a plot to entrap Rev. Randall in a sex scandal and blackmail him.
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Noun
1. (Christianity) the act of delivering from sin or saving from evil
(synonym) redemption
(hypernym) rescue, deliverance, delivery, saving
(hyponym) absolution, remission, remittal, remission of sin
(classification) Christianity, Christian religion
2. a means of preserving from harm or unpleasantness; "tourism was their economic salvation"; "they turned to individualism as their salvation"
(hypernym) means, agency, way
3. the state of being saved or preserved from harm
(hypernym) safety
4. saving someone or something from harm of from an unpleasant situation; "the salvation of his party was the president's major concern"
(hypernym) rescue, deliverance, delivery, saving
(derivation) salvage, salve, relieve, save

(n.)
The redemption of man from the bondage of sin and liability to eternal death, and the conferring on him of everlasting happiness.
  

(n.)
The act of saving; preservation or deliverance from destruction, danger, or great calamity.
  

(n.)
Saving power; that which saves.
  

Salvation [from Latin salvatio from salvare to save] In Christianity, the saving of individual souls from supposed damnation, usually by faith in the Atonement. In theosophy, as concerns the individual, salvation is achieved by victory of his divine self over the illusions created by the contact of the intermediate nature with the lower planes. In this sense the serpent of Eden, Satan even, is man's savior, as are Prometheus, Lucifer, etc. Mankind as a whole is saved by those manasaputras who descended into intellectually senseless mankind of the third root-race and who, by thus enlightening the minds of early humanity, became the elect custodians of the mysteries revealed to mankind by its divine teachers. Again, the Silent Watchers in their various grades, who refuse to pass on into a greater light and maintain their post for the protection and guidance of humanity, are saviors also. Yet no one can be saved by the vicarious merit of another; his salvation is achieved by means of that very free will and enlightened intelligence of his own through which he at first risks falling. But the great ones maintain the ideal which the multitude elect to follow, and thus light the path mankind will ultimately tread.