0 (especially in Christianity) saving someone from evil, suffering, etc.: --
They are the people who substitute the redemptive organisation for the redemptive gadget.
The open borstal takes boys who need the more redemptive opportunities of the open borstal system.
That is, one feature of redemptive possibility is that neither excellent habits nor practical wisdom is required in order to find the morally right way to act.
The noble self-sacrice of the missionary became a redemptive offering.
It has a communal and a redemptive dimension as well.
For if redemption is possible after death, then post-mortem experiences ought to allow for the same sort of redemptive purpose that earthly experiences have.
But at the same time, there is, on his view, little scope for what we might call redemptive possibility.
He is the justified sinner of redemptive transgression.
