Salvation in Fresh Perspective: Covenant, Cross, and Kingdom

Mainstream Christianity tends to define salvation exclusively in terms of substitutionary atonement (Jesus died for me so that I can go to heaven when I die).

While this is not incorrect, nor unbiblical, this definition of salvation is incomplete.

Where does Israel fit into salvation? And what about the covenant? Most importantly, what about the kingdom of God that Jesus preached fervently? How do all of these dimensions that are central to the biblical text and its message fit into the bigg...