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In theology, redemption is forgiveness or absolution for past sins or errors and protection from damnation and disgrace, eternal or temporary, generally through sacrifice. Redemption is common in many world religions, including Indian religions and all Abrahamic religions, especially in Christianity and Islam. In Judaism, redemption refers to God redeeming the Israelites from their various exiles.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Reb on the Web )〕 This includes the final redemption from the present exile. As a Christian theological foundation, redemption refers to the deliverance of Christians from sin. It assumes an important position in salvation because the transgressions in question form part of a great system against which human power is helpless.〔"Redemption." ''Christian Classics Ethereal Library'' at Calvin College. July 2, 2009. ''http://www.ccel.org/s/schaff/encyc/encyc09/htm/iv.vii.lxxxv.htm〕 In Buddhist theology, it encompasses a release from worldly desires. ==Buddhism== In some forms of Buddhism, redemption is inherent in the discipline of giving up attachments to desires: Other disciplines hold that "each Buddha and Bodhisattva is a redeemer", assisting the Buddhist in seeking to achieve the redemptive state.〔Joseph Edkins, ''Chinese Buddhism'' (1893), p. 364.〕 The assistance rendered is a form of self-sacrifice on the part of the teachers, who would presumably be able to achieve total detachment from worldly concerns, but have instead chosen to remain engaged in the material world to the degree that this is necessary to assist others in achieving such detachment.〔 In varieties of Buddhism that include ideas of reincarnation, this relationship may be predestined from earlier life-experiences.〔 In "Pure Land" traditions, redemption takes the form of entry into a realm associated with each Buddha and Bodhisattva, a Pure Land of beauty, free of rebirth; such entry is attained via meditations, visualizations, or recitations, in a particular recitation of the name of the Amitābha Buddha and mindfulness of him. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Redemption (theology)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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