ORDER OF SALVATION (Ordo salutis): A

technical term of Protestant dogmatics to desig

nate the consecutive steps in the work of the Holy

Spirit in the appropriation of salvation. The phrase

seems to occur for the first time in Buddeus (In8ti

tutione8 theologise dogmatica, p. 40,

History Leipsic, 1723), but the idea is an inher

of the ent constituent of the older Protes

Term. tant dogmatics. In medieval theology

no definite analogue appears. As Prot

estantism proceeded from thi criticism and displace

ment of the Roman Catholic conceptions of repent

ance, faith, and works, and as it recognized in faith

the form of the religious conviction, its interest

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sic, 1910. Other special works to be consulted are G. J. Planck, Geschichte der christlich-kirchlichen Gesellschaftsverfaessng, 5 vols., Hanover, 1803 sqq.; R. Rothe, Die Anfange der christlichen Kirche, Wittenberg, 1837; A. Harnack, Die Lehre der zwolf Apostel, in T U, ii. 1-2 (1884); E. Loning, Die Gemeindeverfaesung den Urchristeniums, Halle, 1888; C. Weissacker, Apostolisches Zeitalter, Freiburg, 1892, Eng. transl., London, 1894-95; J. Reville, Les Origines de l'episcopat, Paris, 1894; A. C. McGiffert, The Apostolic Age, New York, 1897; S. von Dunin-Borkowski, Die neueren Forschungen uber die Anfange des Episkopats, Freiburg, 1900 (reviews the later literature); K. Lubeck, Reichseinteilung und kirchliche Hierarchie des Orients, Munster, 1901; H. Bruders, Die Verfassung der Kirche bis . . . 175, Mains, 1904; R. Knopf, Das nachapostolische Zeitalter, Tubingen, 1905; P. A. Leder, Die Diakonen, die Bischofe und Presbyter, Stuttgart, 1905; K. Kautsky, Der Ursprung des Christentums, Stuttgart, 1908; C. Bigg, The Origins of Christianity, Oxford, 1909; F. C. Conybeare, Myth, Magic, and Morals: a Study of Christian Origins, London, 1909; O. Pfleiderer, The Development of Christianity, ib. 1909.