Changing Shape of Our Salvation

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Is there an afterlife? If so, how can I be saved? For traditional Christians, the fate of the soul after death is the most pressing question of life. But many Christians have never learned the way that concepts of the afterlife evolved throughout the Hebrew Scriptures, New Testament, and church history. In this easy to read new volume, John Killinger gives us a sense of changing and more diverse views on salvation in Christianity, while respecting the importance of the question ...

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Overview

Is there an afterlife? If so, how can I be saved? For traditional Christians, the fate of the soul after death is the most pressing question of life. But many Christians have never learned the way that concepts of the afterlife evolved throughout the Hebrew Scriptures, New Testament, and church history. In this easy to read new volume, John Killinger gives us a sense of changing and more diverse views on salvation in Christianity, while respecting the importance of the question for many today.

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  • ISBN-13: 9780824524227
  • Publisher: Crossroad Publishing Company
  • Publication date: 4/25/2007
  • Pages: 144
  • Product dimensions: 5.40 (w) x 8.20 (h) x 0.50 (d)

Table of Contents


Introduction     11
Salvation in the Old Testament     19
The Corporate Nature of the Soul     21
The Finality of Sheol     24
The Evidence in the Psalms     28
The Book of Daniel     32
The Nature of Atonement     34
An Understandable View of Salvation     36
Salvation in the New Testament     42
Salvation in the Gospels     44
The Pauline Concept of Salvation     47
Hebrews and Revelation     55
The Importance of Conversion     61
Salvation through the Centuries     66
The Orthodox View of Salvation     72
The Reformers' View of Salvation     75
A Pandora's Box of Salvation Beliefs     79
Salvation in Our Time     84
Corroborative Voices     91
A Personal Testimony     100
A Word of Caution     107
The Inevitability of Change     112
God of the Gaps?     115
A Final Word     125
Notes     130
Bibliography     132
Acknowledgments     135
About the Author     137
A Word from the Editor     139
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