What Does It Mean to Be Saved? : Broadening Evangelical Horizons of Salvation

by Stackhouse, John G., Jr., ed.

• ISBN13: 9780801023538
• ISBN10: 080102353X
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2002-12-01
• Publisher: Baker Academic

Summary

What does salvation mean? How do Christians, specifically evangelicals, understand salvation and redemption? What do women, the poor, the oppressed, and the planet have to do with typical evangelical concerns of "getting souls saved?" What Does It Mean to Be Saved? probes evangelicalism's understanding of salvation in the past and invites the movement to better teaching in the future. Each essay, from contributors including Loren Wilkinson, Henri Blocher, John Webster, and Jonathan Wilson, brings a distinctive message about what evangelicals need to consider to understand more clearly God's wonderful work of redemption. Students, pastors, missions workers, and all those interested in the evangelical understanding of salvation will benefit from this provocative and engaging book.

Author Biography

John G. Stackhouse, Jr. (Ph.D., University of Chicago) is Sangwoo Youtong Chee Professor of Theology and Culture at Regent College.

Table of Contents

Contributors	7	(2)
Preface	9	(6)
John G. Stackhouse, Jr.
Part 1 Basic Reconsiderations
The New Exodus/New Creational Restoration of the Image of God: A Biblical-Theological Perspective on Salvation	15	(28)
Rikk E. Watts
``Let Us See Thy Great Salvation'': What Did It Mean to Be Saved for the Early Evangelicals?	43	(24)
D. Bruce Hindmarsh
Agnus Victor: The Atonement as Victory and Vicarious Punishment	67	(28)
Henri A. G. Blocher
Part 2 Expanding Particular Zones
What Is This Life For? Expanding Our View of Salvation	95	(20)
Vincent Bacote
Being Saved as a New Creation: Co-Humanity in the True Imago Dei	115	(22)
Cherith Fee Nordling
Salvation as Life in the (New) City	137	(16)
Amy L. Sherman
Christians Should Be Converted Pagans: The Apologetic Problem of a Gospel That Denies Our Earthiness	153	(26)
Loren Wilkinson
Part 3 Responses
What's Evangelical about Evangelical Soteriology?	179	(6)
John Webster
Clarifying Vision, Empowering Witness	185	(10)
Jonathan R. Wilson
Subject Index	195	(4)
Scripture Index	199