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The theology of salvation stands at the heart of the Christian
faith. Very often the structure of Christian salvation is seen in
terms of a single theme, such as atonement for sins, forgiveness,
liberation or friendship with God. It is easy to reduce soteriology
to a matter of merely personal experience, or to see salvation as
just a solution to a human problem. This book explores a vital yet
often neglected aspect of Christian confession - the essential
relationship between the nature of salvation and the character of
the God who saves. In what ways does God's saving outreach reflect
God's character? How might a Christian depiction of salvation best
bear witness to these features? What difference might it make to
start with the identity of God as encountered in the gospel, then
view everything else in the light of that? In addressing these
questions, this book offers fresh appraisals of a range of major
themes in theology: the nature of creaturely existence; the
relationship between divine purposes and material history; the
holiness, love and judgement of God; the atoning work of Jesus
Christ; election, justification and the nature of faith; salvation
outside the church; human and non-human ends; the nature of
eschatological fellowship with God. In looking at these issues in
the light of God's identity, the authors offer a stimulating and
tightly-argued reassessment of what a Christian theology of
salvation ought to resemble, and ask what the implications might be
for Christian life and witness in the world today.
The theology of salvation stands at the heart of the Christian
faith. Very often the structure of Christian salvation is seen in
terms of a single theme, such as atonement for sins, forgiveness,
liberation or friendship with God. It is easy to reduce soteriology
to a matter of merely personal experience, or to see salvation as
just a solution to a human problem. This book explores a vital yet
often neglected aspect of Christian confession - the essential
relationship between the nature of salvation and the character of
the God who saves. In what ways does God's saving outreach reflect
God's character? How might a Christian depiction of salvation best
bear witness to these features? What difference might it make to
start with the identity of God as encountered in the gospel, then
view everything else in the light of that? In addressing these
questions, this book offers fresh appraisals of a range of major
themes in theology: the nature of creaturely existence; the
relationship between divine purposes and material history; the
holiness, love and judgement of God; the atoning work of Jesus
Christ; election, justification and the nature of faith; salvation
outside the church; human and non-human ends; the nature of
eschatological fellowship with God. In looking at these issues in
the light of God's identity, the authors offer a stimulating and
tightly-argued reassessment of what a Christian theology of
salvation ought to resemble, and ask what the implications might be
for Christian life and witness in the world today.
Alongside essays on aspects of Calvin s Theology, Calvin: The Man
and the Legacy includes studies of Calvin as pastor, preacher and
liturgist and traces the influence of Calvin as it was conveyed
through Scottish migration to Australia and New Zealand.
Fascinating stories are told of the ways in which the Calvinist
tradition has contributed much to the building of colonial
societies, but also of the ways it has attracted ridicule and
derision and has been subject to caricature that is sometimes
deserved, sometimes humorous, but often grossly misleading."
Alongside essays on aspects of Calvin s Theology, Calvin: The Man
and the Legacy includes studies of Calvin as pastor, preacher and
liturgist and traces the influence of Calvin as it was conveyed
through Scottish migration to Australia and New Zealand.
Fascinating stories are told of the ways in which the Calvinist
tradition has contributed much to the building of colonial
societies, but also of the ways it has attracted ridicule and
derision and has been subject to caricature that is sometimes
deserved, sometimes humorous, but often grossly misleading."
The dynamic relationship between art and theology continues to
fascinateand tochallenge, especially when theology addresses art in
all of its variety. In Architecture and Theology: The Art of Place
, author Murray Raeturns tothe spatial arts, especially
architecture, to investigate how the art forms engaged in
theconstruction of our built environment relateto Christian faith.
Rae does not offer a theology of the spatial arts, but instead
engages in a sustained theological conversation with the spatial
arts. Because the spatial artsare public,visual, and communal, they
wield an immense but easily overlookedinfluence. Architecture and
Theology overcomes this inattention by offering new ways of
thinking about the theological importance of space and place in our
experience of God, the relation between freedom and law in
Christian life, the transformation involved in God's promised new
creation, biblical anticipation of the heavenly city, divine
presence and absence, the architecture of repentance and remorse,
and the relation between space and time. In doing so, Rae finds an
ample place for theologyamidst the architectural arts.
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