Difference between redemption and resurrection

redemption

Definitions

noun

  1. repayment of the principal amount of a debt or security at or before maturity (as when a corporation repurchases its own stock)
  2. the act of purchasing back something previously sold
  3. (theology) the act of delivering from sin or saving from evil

Examples

About 22 per cent of those targeted responded, said Ferguson, and the redemption on samples hit 80 per cent.

Yeaah we were excited when we first heard about the Firefly fan flic – Browncoats: Redemption.

Immediate pressure on peasant living standards was relieved by the abolition of redemption dues and restraint of the tax burden.

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Resurrection

Definitions

noun

  1. (New Testament) the rising of Christ on the third day after the Crucifixion

Examples

The time is nigh for the resurrection of these long-forgotten principles.

The fall in popularity of the death's head and the subsequent prevalence of the cherub was a reflection of the Great Awakening and the belief in the immortality of the soul: "Cherubs reflect a stress on resurrection, while death's heads emphasize the mortality of man.

He thereby provides both a theology of the resurrection and a theology of the liturgy: one encounters the risen Christ in the word and in the sacrament; divine service is the fashion in which he becomes touchable to us and recognizable as the living Christ.

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