• In an almost conversational style, Salvation Belongs to the Lord explores all the major biblical truths, explains key terms of systematic theology, and reflects on their implications and connections under the lordship of Christ. (wtsbooks.com)
  • Routledge Studies in Analytic and Systematic Theology publishes state-of-the-art monographs and edited volumes of philosophical and systematic theology. (routledge.com)
  • Barth's doctrines of election, the atonement, and the resurrection receive a fresh reading as the book explores his apocalyptic grasp of God's eschatological deed of salvation and as it puts forward the claim-with and against Barth-that the climax of this deed of salvation is best located in the event of God's raising of Christ from the dead. (bloomsbury.com)
  • Our story of salvation is that Christ also shattered the sword of death by His sacrifice on the cross, the ultimate act of true love! (libsyn.com)
  • To summarize, salvation by Grace Alone, through Faith Alone, in Christ Alone, according to the Scriptures Alone, to the Glory of God Alone. (monergism.com)
  • Christ came to save man and it is the same message that was preached by Paul in his letters, but part of that salvation is the development of a just society [8] . (patheos.com)
  • 2] If the person accepts the gospel and genuinely comes to Christ for salvation, then the ideal process is for them to be baptized in the Name of the Father, and the Son, and the Holy Ghost. (pentecostaltheology.com)
  • This is the first of 11 posts overviewing The Claim of Humanity in Christ, Salvation and Sanctification in the Theology of T. F. and J. B. Torrance by Dr. Alexandra S. Radcliff. (gci.org)
  • Prior to any contribution that we could make, God chooses the whole of humanity for salvation in Christ. (gci.org)
  • Antithetical to the teachings of Ali, the salvation of man by the grace of God and the substitutionary atonement of Jesus Christ is the cornerstone of Christian theology. (christianapologetic.org)
  • Mankind desperately needs salvation because every person since Adam and Eve, except Jesus Christ, was born with a sin nature and no person, except Jesus Christ, has lived a sinless life. (christianapologetic.org)
  • Sin and Salvation in Christ looks at the fallen nature of creation through a reformed microscope. (logos.com)
  • his humiliation and exultation, and concludes with the finished work of salvation in Christ. (logos.com)
  • In Christian theology, the teaching that Christ possessed both a human and divine will is central to the doctrine of two natures, but it also represents a logical paradox, raising questions about how a person can be both impeccable and subject to temptation. (routledge.com)
  • The authors of the New Testament adopted the same key moments of salvation history to describe the spousal relationship between Christ and the Church. (brill.com)
  • How then does regeneration relate to our often-rehearsed "order of salvation" (Latin ordo salutis ), which lays out the precious array of saving graces that are ours in Christ? (desiringgod.org)
  • He points to a cosmological depth dimension of Barth's soteriology and shows that, in the wake of the doctrine of election, Barth conceives the doctrine of salvation as a three-agent drama. (bloomsbury.com)
  • But believing that baptism is essential for salvation, well, that doctrine I certainly take issue with - or better, the Scriptures have an issue with that doctrine! (pentecostaltheology.com)
  • That comprehensive survey of 35,000 Americans found a majority of Christians saying that people of other religions can find salvation and eternal life. (religionnewsblog.com)
  • Based on my experience with the Christian community today the following is an attempt at categorizing the various theologies Christians hold concerning the particular issues of Free Will, Eternal Security, Assurance of Salvation, Perseverance of the Saints and Modes of maintaining one's salvation status. (bcbsr.com)
  • Should Christians doubt the assurance of their salvation? (routledge.com)
  • This brings me to the third and final point in this study of sanctification within Covenant Theology. (thirdmill.org)
  • As suggested by its title, the book summarizes the incarnational Trinitarian theology of Thomas F. (TF) and James B. (JB) Torrance, particularly in the areas of soteriology (salvation) and sanctification (holiness and Christian living). (gci.org)
  • The book also offers suggestions for how Torrance theology might be clarified and expanded, particularly related to the outworking, through the ministry of the Holy Spirit, of our sanctification, which already is accomplished in and through Jesus' vicarious humanity. (gci.org)
  • When people view God as a "contractual God," they tend to understand salvation and sanctification as grounded in a transaction based on obedience to law. (gci.org)
  • How do we who love the Reformed emphasis on justification (and sanctification) think about the essential grace of the new birth, with the balance and health it brings to the whole of our theology? (desiringgod.org)
  • Kelly has authored a very fine and surprising study of Barth's mature 'report' on the devil and God's triumph over all his works in the theology of the Church Dogmatics . (bloomsbury.com)
  • But I did once visit a church where they prayed solemnly for God's blessing on "our Queen" and for "the success of our troops" - at which point, I felt pretty sure that the odds on my salvation were getting longer. (faith-theology.com)
  • Variant views on salvation (soteriology) are among the main fault lines dividing the various Christian denominations, including conflicting definitions of sin and depravity (the sinful nature of mankind), justification (God's means of removing the consequences of sin), and atonement (the forgiving or pardoning of sin through the suffering, death and resurrection of Jesus). (wikipedia.org)
  • In Christian theology, justification is God's act of removing the guilt and penalty of sin while at the same time making a sinner righteous through Christ's atoning sacrifice. (wikipedia.org)
  • and final salvation, accomplished after a lifetime of striving to do God's will (theosis or divinization). (wikipedia.org)
  • If you're working for God's love and acceptance and salvation from the punishment we're all rightly due, then you still haven't accepted (or received) God's grace. (jimmynorman.com)
  • Greg talks about what the purpose of worship is, God's big picture of salvation history, then takes calls on how to get through to people with a passive attitude towards religion, if God is limited by time, what are reasons to reject theistic evolution, and more. (str.org)
  • Ken Keathley serves as Director of the L. Russ Bush Center for Faith and Culture and Senior Professor of Theology occupying the Jesse Hendley Chair of Theology at Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary in Wake Forest, NC where he has been teaching since 2006. (theologyforthechurch.com)
  • Ideally , baptism should follow salvation through faith in Messiah Yeshua as soon as one can. (pentecostaltheology.com)
  • But baptism is not essential for salvation - only belief and faith are! (pentecostaltheology.com)
  • 1. "Faith is the only response essential for salvation. (milescity.com)
  • 1 John 2:2) by confession of sin, remorse, repentance, faith and obedience instantly receives the great gift of salvation. (christianapologetic.org)
  • Any student can study Theology, whether they are of the Christian faith, another faith or of no religious faith at all. (otago.ac.nz)
  • Theology is an examination of the scriptures, history, content and relevance of the Christian faith, but it presupposes or requires no Christian commitment from students. (otago.ac.nz)
  • But in performance-based salvation, one's faith is in one's works. (bcbsr.com)
  • In Christianity, salvation (also called deliverance or redemption) is the saving of human beings from sin and its consequences-which include death and separation from God-by Christ's death and resurrection, and the justification entailed by this salvation. (wikipedia.org)
  • Liberation theology was a new kind of theology that started developing within Christianity in the 1960's [1] . (patheos.com)
  • Wesleyan theology, otherwise known as Wesleyan-Arminian theology, or Methodist theology, is a theological tradition in Protestant Christianity based upon the ministry of the 18th-century evangelical reformer brothers John Wesley and Charles Wesley. (wikipedia.org)
  • Wesleyan-Arminian theology, manifest today in Methodism (inclusive of the Holiness movement), is named after its founders, John Wesley in particular, as well as for Jacobus Arminius, since it is a subset of Arminian theology. (wikipedia.org)
  • This period, during the Calvinist-Arminian debate, was influential in forming a lasting link between Arminian and Wesleyan theology. (wikipedia.org)
  • What I found in Friedman's book was not an answer to that question, nor even primarily an explanation of how Arminian theology led to the rise of modern economics. (thegospelcoalition.org)
  • Beginning students of theology and church leaders looking for a theological refresher or teaching tool will welcome this remarkably clear introduction to the doctrines of Scripture. (wtsbooks.com)
  • This book offers an innovative, critical, and constructive exploration of Barth's theology, one which demonstrates the radicality of his thought and which underscores the continued contribution he might make to theological reflection on a central element of the Christian tradition. (bloomsbury.com)
  • This masterwork will appeal to scholars and students of theology, research and theological libraries, and pastors and laity who read serious works of Reformed theology. (logos.com)
  • So many theological debates were essentially "It can't be both" and then people split by going the way of this or that new theology. (thegospelcoalition.org)
  • The series specifically focuses on manuscripts that exemplify or assess the approach of analytic theology, in part or whole, or otherwise demonstrate clearly articulated and rigorous theological arguments. (routledge.com)
  • Its aim is to advance thinking on a range of significant theological issues for students and practitioners of philosophy and theology and/or to recapture and reformulate traditional doctrines for the contemporary world. (routledge.com)
  • This study undertakes a story discovering of your own text out-of Serves 15:1-31 and you may grows the fresh new create out-of implicit theology, identifying it generic, always unspoken facts towards theological world that have a quantifiable influence on private and congregational decisions. (aaplinvestors.net)
  • Early Christian beliefs of the person and sacrificial role of Jesus in human salvation were further elaborated by the Church Fathers, medieval writers and modern scholars in various atonement theories, such as the ransom theory, Christus Victor theory, recapitulation theory, satisfaction theory, penal substitution theory and moral influence theory. (wikipedia.org)
  • For the Christian church today, nothing is more needed than accurate theology which is grounded, not in human speculations, but in divine revelation . (moodypublishers.com)
  • The origin of this theory is not directly worked out as part of a theology of revelation but instead as a scientific methodology. (lu.se)
  • The necessity of immersion for salvation is another part of the old redemption story that seldom stirs the hearts of those who believe in God. (milescity.com)
  • instead, it sought and found for these covenants in time a stable, eternal foundation in the counsel of God, and again regarded this counsel-conceived as aiming at the salvation of the human race-as a covenant between the three persons in the divine being itself ( pactum salutis , counsel of peace, the covenant of redemption). (logos.com)
  • Gustavo Gutierrez, who is known as the father of liberation theology, was a priest in Peru. (patheos.com)
  • In the Catholic responses, people with AIDS, including priests and seminarians, were cared for with the support from the Archdiocese, while the strained internal deba- te created opposition among " pastoralists " and followers of Liberation Theology and " canonists ", espe- cially in the fi eld of prevention in which the Vatican delivered a discourse of a moral and "delegating" style of coping. (bvsalud.org)
  • Wesleyan theology asserts the primary authority of Scripture and affirms the Christological orthodoxy of the first five centuries of church history. (wikipedia.org)
  • All interested in nuptial symbolism and the Song of Songs, the Garden of Eden, the Temple, prophetic eschatology, salvation history, biblical theology, and the canonical and typological interpretation of Scripture. (brill.com)
  • Exploring the content and application of incarnational Trinitarian theology. (gci.org)
  • On that basis, I recommend it to the readers of this blog and others who wish to learn more about the incarnational Trinitarian theology this blog represents, which is in alignment with the theology of the Torrance brothers and the theology embraced by Grace Communion International (GCI). (gci.org)
  • From biblical scholar Bergsma, two-time teacher of the year at the Franciscan University of Steubenville, comes this fresh, creative, and authentically Catholic introduction to the big picture of salvation history. (christianbook.com)
  • I'm the author/artist and I want to review Bible Basics for Catholics: A New Picture of Salvation History . (christianbook.com)
  • Along with Abraham Kuyper, Bavinck figured prominently in the nineteenth century Dutch Calvinist revival and contributed to the resurgence of Reformed theology. (logos.com)
  • I realized that I hadn't been doing a lot of the things a Christian should do, and began to doubt my salvation (after all, nobody had ever told me that I couldn't lose it in the first place), so when Justin prayed to receive the Lord Jesus as his Savior, I did too. (baptist.org)
  • Bergsma combines sound theology, academic expertise, pastoral wisdom, and an endearing playfulness to draw readers into the connection between the great stories of the Bible and salvation in Jesus. (christianbook.com)
  • The results stirred controversy among some Christian leaders for whom Jesus as the only path to salvation is a paramount teaching. (religionnewsblog.com)
  • eBooks are the only way for most people in developing countries to get access to sound theology and other good literature. (monergism.com)
  • Able to articulate the main themes of Christian theology in a way that is responsible and coherent. (otago.ac.nz)
  • It is the teaching that, as a consequence of the fall of man, every person born into the world is enslaved to the service of sin as a result of their inherent fallen nature and, apart from the irresistible or prevenient grace of God, is utterly unable to choose to follow God, refrain from evil, or accept the gift of salvation as it is offered. (wikipedia.org)
  • Next, they referenced Mark 16:16 and stated that baptism was essential for salvation and that they had never seen anyone from Rapture Ready ever take on this verse because they obviously didn't know how to handle it. (pentecostaltheology.com)
  • I took the time to demonstrate to them the error of their thinking and presented them with many Scriptures that present what is truly essential for salvation. (pentecostaltheology.com)
  • Needless to say, it sounds like I may have been dealing with a Seventh Day Adventist who believes that baptism is essential for salvation and does not believe in or understand dispensationalism. (pentecostaltheology.com)
  • The other passage that false teachers and cults will use, in addition to Mark 16:16 , to support their insistence that baptism is essential for salvation, is Matthew 28:18-20 . (pentecostaltheology.com)
  • Speaks in terms of election rather than salvation. (bcbsr.com)
  • One's assurance of salvation is based upon the effects of being born of God and is measurable relative to one's behavior. (bcbsr.com)
  • Following Hauerwas's logic, anyone who worships in a church that recognizes Daylight Savings Time would also be in danger of losing their salvation. (faith-theology.com)
  • Of course if you worship in a church that doesn't commemorate the Alamo, your salvation is also in doubt. (faith-theology.com)
  • He also goes through some if the historic church councils, such as Vatican I and II to discuss that theology is less about knowledge and but action in our lives. (patheos.com)
  • Theology of liberation can only happen when those who are exploited feel they can get their voices heard in society, and within the church. (patheos.com)
  • AndrĂ© Villeneuve , Ph.D. (2013), The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, is Assistant Professor of Theology at the St. John Vianney Seminary in Denver, CO. His focus is on the relationship between Israel and the Church through the work of 'Catholics for Israel. (brill.com)
  • it demonstrates that the gospel is the power of God unto salvation. (desiringgod.org)
  • Salvation History is the story of how God rescued us from sin and death and returned us to himself through the course of human history. (catholicbookandgifts.com)
  • While Friedman argues that developments in theology drove developments in economics (and politics, among other things), I think his retelling of the history demonstrates considerably more. (thegospelcoalition.org)
  • In Nuptial Symbolism in Second Temple Writings, the New Testament and Rabbinic Literature , AndrĂ© Villeneuve examines the ancient Jewish concept of the covenant between God and Israel, portrayed as a marriage dynamically moving through salvation history. (brill.com)
  • He discusses theology as wisdom and theology as knowledge, and he does so by referencing classic works by Thomas Kempis, Thomas Aquinas, and Abelard. (patheos.com)
  • Declan Kelly uncovers the promise of viewing Barth's account of salvation as a "three-agent drama"-a drama involving God, humanity, and anti-God powers. (bloomsbury.com)
  • Because the book is well written and provides helpful definitions of technical terms, I find it to be a good "primer" on Torrance theology. (gci.org)
  • In particular, students of Pauline theology will find much that is of interest, particularly regarding Barth's articulation of the relationship between cross and resurrection. (bloomsbury.com)
  • This overview of the Bible is based on Bergsma's wildly popular introduction to theology course at Franciscan University, where he is a colleague of Scott Hahn. (christianbook.com)
  • Gutierrez, in bringing political liberation in the sphere of salvation, turns to the accounts of the Exodus. (patheos.com)
  • Second, developments in theology and economics reflected each other as well as other variables, especially the Enlightenment. (thegospelcoalition.org)
  • Theology is the study of God and all things in relation to God. (biblemesh.com)
  • This book explores and expounds upon questions of paradox and contradiction in theology with an emphasis on recent contributions from analytic philosophical theology. (routledge.com)