I believe in the redemptive death and resurrection of Jesus Christ. But he also depicted love as redemptive and sacrifice as uplifting. Although it is a gracious covenant beginning with God's redemptive action ("cf". Paine expressed a redemptive futurism or political messianism. The concept of the victim soul derives from the Roman Catholic teaching on redemptive suffering. The music of Beethoven, specifically the Archduke Trio is also used as a redemptive metaphor. In Hinduism, suggests Alper, the function of mantras shifted from the quotidian to redemptive. Christianity, by contrast, struggles against sin, while suggesting that suffering can have a redemptive quality. Many Christians see Jesus' suffering as being redemptive. Scaggs sings about the necessity in the redemptive power of music. He is also known for coining the phrase "the myth of redemptive violence". He often speaks of God's death as a redemptive event. Gemma must face loss, the cost of war and the redemptive power of love. Instead relationships in a "redemptive" light. His books nearly always touched on the redemptive power of art.