The Vicarious Humanity of Christ and the Reality of Salvation

by Kettler, Christian D.

• ISBN13: 9781610971669
• ISBN10: 1610971663
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2011-03-01
• Publisher: Wipf & Stock Pub

Summary

In this book, the problem of the reality of salvation is addressed by T F Torrances doctrine of "the vicarious humanity of Christ." Through this approach, salvation as humanization is affirmed, yet without the problems of anthropocentric theologies. This book is unique in that it offers both a survey of contemporary Christian thinking on salvation as well as a constructive alternative based on Torrance's doctrine, a significant yet neglected contribution to modern theology. Book jacket.

Author Biography

Christian D. Kettler is Profeesor of Theology and Philosophy, Director of the Master of Arts in Christian Ministry program at Friends University in Wichita, Kansas, an ordained minister in the Presbyterian Church (USA), and Theologian in Residence at the Church of the Savior in Wichita. He is the author of The God Who Believes: Faith, Doubt, and the Vicarious Humanity of Christ (Cascade, 2005), Reading Ray S. Anderson: Theology as Ministry, Ministry as Theology (Pickwick, 2010), and coeditor (with Todd H. Speidell) of Incarnational Ministry: The Presence of Christ in Church, Society, and Family: Essays in Honor of Ray S. Anderson (Wipf Stock 2009).

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	p. v
Preface: Rashkolnikov's Question and the Reality of Salvation	p. 1
The Problem of the Reality of Salvation in Contemporary Theology
Salvation as Immanence
Process Theology	p. 15
Liberation Theology	p. 25
Salvation as Eschatology	p. 41
Salvation as Universalism	p. 63
Salvation is Humanization	p. 73
The Humanity of God as Critique of Anthropocentric Theologies	p. 81
The Vicarious Humanity of Christ as the External Expression of the Eternal Humanity of God
Vicarious Humanity as Theological Reality	p. 121
Vicarious Humanity as Epistemological and Hermeneutical Reality	p. 155
Vicarious Humanity as Soteriological Reality: The Vicarious Repentance of Christ	p. 187
Vicarious Humanity as Eschatological Reality: The Exalted Humanity of Christ in the Epistle to the Hebrews	p. 205
The Vicarious Humanity of Christ as the Locus of the Reality of Salvation in the World: Vicarious Humanity as Ecclesial Reality
Humanity Displaced: The Judge Judged in our Place	p. 233
Humanity Restored: Christ as the Last Adam and the Church as the Body of Christ	p. 263
Epilogue: Sonia's Answer and the Vicarious Humanity of Christ in the Church	p. 289
Bibliogrephy	p. 293
Index of Names	p. 313
Index of Subjects	p. 319
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