Salvation by Allegiance Alone: Rethinking Faith, Works, and the Gospel of Jesus the King

Reframing Salvation as Allegiance to Jesus the King

We are saved by faith when we trust that Jesus died for our sins. This is the gospel, or so we are taught. But what is faith? And does this accurately summarize the gospel?

Because faith is frequently misunderstood and the climax of the gospel misidentified, the gospel's full power remains untapped. While offering a fresh proposal for what faith means within a biblical theology of salvation, Matthew Bates presses the church toward a new pre...