Why Salvation?

by Joel B. Green

  • Year 2013
  • Type Book
  • Genre biblical theology
  • Tradition Evangelical
  • Original language English

For For pastors, students and church readers wanting a biblical account of salvation as personal and social transformation; not for specialists.

Should I read this?

For the general reader
3 of 5 worth your time
For the researcher
3 of 5 worth your time
Difficulty
2 of 5 moderate

Green reads salvation through the whole story of Scripture as God's work of healing, liberating and rescuing, personal and communal.

How it proceeds
  • Philosophic 2 of 5
  • Scriptural 5 of 5
  • Experiential 2 of 5
  • Sociological 4 of 5
  • Historical 1 of 5

Independent intensities, 0–5 — what the work is made of, not how good it is.

Published by Abingdon Press in 2013 in the series Reframing New Testament Theology. The publisher presents it as an account of salvation as the good news of God drawing near to individuals and to communities of faith: when Christians say 'Jesus saves', they stand on Scriptures that proclaim a God who, through Jesus, heals, liberates and rescues. Green reads the grand narrative of Scripture as a journey of salvation calling for transformed commitments, renewed allegiances and fresh practices, personal and social. It is a more accessible companion to his earlier Salvation (2003) and to Recovering the Scandal of the Cross.

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Catalog IDW.5RBH20.9

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