Kategoria BISAC: Religion >> Christian Theology - Soteriology

This is a clear guide to the Christian hope of heaven. Stressing Christ's death, resurrection, and ascension - and what they mean for the believer - A Christian's Pocket Guide to Assurance simply clarifies the biblical facts behind the doctrine of assurance of salvation.

For many Christians, the doctrine of election is perceived as one of the most perplexing articles of the faith. In this sermon by Martin Chemnitz (1522-1586) on the "Parable of the Wedding Feast" from Matthew 22:1-14, the reader is given a good overview of the biblical teaching of election by one of the great theologians of the Lutheran Reformation.
This 1573 sermon anticipates the more extensive treatment of this article of the faith which is found in Article 11 of the Formula of Concord in the Book of Concord (1580), of which Martin Chemnitz was one of the primary authors.

In Beyond Ritual, Siobhan Garrigan uses Habermas's theory of communicative action to suggest two things: first, a method by which theology can access the ritual symbols by which faith is formed; and secondly a metaphor of intersubjectivity with which theology can propose an interpretative, rather than an instrumental, understanding of sacramentality - and thus of God.A Through fieldwork studies of both 'marginal' and 'mainstream' Christian Eucharists, Garrigan develops the conversation between Habermas's philosophy and Christian theology, showing how ritual interactions form, and challenge,...

Torrance's vision of Theosis (deification/divinisation) is explored through his doctrine of creation and anthropology, his characterisation of the incarnation, his accounts of reconciliation and union with Christ, and his theology of church and sacraments. Myk Habets' study distinguishes Torrance's Reformed vision of theosis from other possible accounts of salvation as divinisation as they are found, for instance, within patristic thought and Eastern Orthodoxy. This book presents the first critique of the theology of T.F.Torrance to focus on theosis, and examines a model of theosis within the...

"Find Security, Freedom, and Acceptance by Resting in the Father s Love"
People are always looking for identity and acceptance. Sadly, the search often leads to wrong places, wrong people, and wrong messages about who they are.
These restless journeys ultimately lead us to feeling frustrated, unloved, and unseen. The truth is you are already loved and accepted by your Heavenly Father
Transition from living in "Spiritual Slavery to Sonship," as you:

• experience Father God s love like never before it stops being theology and becomes transformational...

A "debate" between John Wesley and Charles Stanley. Compares and contrasts the positions of Wesley and Stanley on salvation, assurance and security. Although Stanley grew up with a Pentecostal Holiness background, he left Arminianism to embrace Calvinism and the doctrine of unconditional eternal security. Over the years he has built a reputation among some Wesleyans as being "almost holiness." Points out how the popular preacher has erroneously rationalized Bible passages in his attempt to reconcile conflicting concepts. Includes an appendix of scripture references on salvation and security,...

The priesthood of all believers is a pillar undergirding Protestant ecclesiology. Yet the doctrine has often been used to serve diverse agendas. This book examines the doctrine's canonical, catholic, and contextual dimensions. It first identifies the priesthood of all believers as a canonical doctrine based upon the royal priesthood of Christ and closely related to the believer's eschatological temple-service and offering of spiritual sacrifices (chapters 1-3). It secondly describes its catholic development by examining three paradigmatic shifts, shifts especially associated with Christendom...

Almost 60 percent of those in American evangelical churches believe that many religions can lead to eternal life. But if Jesus is to be trusted when he says that no one comes to the Father except through him, the church is failing in its mission. And it's not hard to guess why. An exclusive Jesus just isn't popular in our inclusive world.

Dr. Robert Jeffress calls on Christians to recover the exclusive claims of the one they claim as Lord and Savior, not as a way to keep people out of heaven but as the only way to invite them in. He tackles questions like

- Can people be saved...

Analyzing and comparing the doctrines of justification held by a legendary nineteenth-century Catholic, John Henry Newman, and an Italian hero of the Reformation, Peter Martyr Vermigli, this book uncovers abiding opportunities, as well as obstacles in the Catholic-Protestant divide. These earnest scholars of the faith were both converts, moving in opposite directions across that divide, and, as a result, were pastorally and theologically influential sources of opposition to their former creeds. In addition to advancing scholarship on several issues associated with Newman's and Vermigli's...

Of the seven statements Christ uttered from the cross, two stand out as being extremely significant in confirming what was being accomplished through the atoning sacrifice of Christ. The question -My God, my God, why have You forsaken me?- gives us a sense of what was in -the cup- of God's wrathful judgment, which Jesus drank to its bitterest dregs on our behalf. The exclamation -It is finished - unquestionably assures us that the Savior's atoning sacrifice accomplished what was necessary in satisfactorily paying the debt owed for our sin.

Your gratitude and faith will be...

Of the seven statements Christ uttered from the cross, two stand out as being extremely significant in confirming what was being accomplished through the atoning sacrifice of Christ. The question -My God, my God, why have You forsaken me?- gives us a sense of what was in -the cup- of God's wrathful judgment, which Jesus drank to its bitterest dregs on our behalf. The exclamation -It is finished - unquestionably assures us that the Savior's atoning sacrifice accomplished what was necessary in satisfactorily paying the debt owed for our sin.

Your gratitude and faith will be...

Addresses a current lacuna in English-language theological literature. Rather than deconstruct the Church's tradition, Roger Nutt offers a vibrant presentation of principles as a sound foundation for a renewed appreciation of each of the seven sacraments in the Christian life as the divinely willed means of communion and friendship between God and humanity.

The priesthood of all believers is a pillar undergirding Protestant ecclesiology. Yet the doctrine has often been used to serve diverse agendas. This book examines the doctrines canonical, catholic, and contextual dimensions. It first identifies the priesthood of all believers as a canonical doctrine based upon the royal priesthood of Christ and closely related to the believers eschatological temple-service and offering of spiritual sacrifices (chapters 1-3). It secondly describes its catholic development by examining three paradigmatic shifts, shifts especially associated with Christendom...

Though the apostle Paul boldly proclaimed -Christ crucified- as the heart of the gospel, Fleming Rutledge notes that preaching about the cross of Christ is remarkably neglected in most churches today. In this book Rutledge addresses the issues and controversies that have caused pastors to speak of the cross only in the most general, bland terms, precluding a full understanding and embrace of the gospel by their congregations.

Countering our contemporary tendency to bypass Jesus' crucifixion, Rutledge in these pages examines in depth all the various themes and motifs used by...

What would happen if the liturgy for the Lord's Supper started with the images in the New Testament rather than the divisions of our past? It would be like going through an open door into a new world. There we would find a new Passover celebration, a new covenant, and remembrance and proclamation of Jesus' death and resurrection--all in the context of the kingdom of God. It would be an evangelical Lord's Supper. This is a high-risk operation, given the reliance by many on transactional sacrifice and the tendency to reduce the Supper to a sacrament of penance for individuals. Ideas rejected by...

How the Bible shows that works are subsumed under and follow upon belief in Jesus Christ the Son of God. Faith is the priority.

What would happen if the liturgy for the Lord's Supper started with the images in the New Testament rather than the divisions of our past? It would be like going through an open door into a new world. There we would find a new Passover celebration, a new covenant, and remembrance and proclamation of Jesus' death and resurrection--all in the context of the kingdom of God. It would be an evangelical Lord's Supper. This is a high-risk operation, given the reliance by many on transactional sacrifice and the tendency to reduce the Supper to a sacrament of penance for individuals. Ideas rejected by...

The idea of Jesus initiating a second humanity and new creation by His incarnation, death, and resurrection is an important but often undervalued emphasis in the New Testament and in patristic theology. In A Second Adam, Cody Cook presents this doctrine, called Recapitulation, as a biblical, ancient, and ecumenical model of the atonement which is simultaneously more balanced than the more popular models while also getting us to their most important insights. Christus Victor, satisfaction, penal substitution, liberation, and theosis models of salvation are shown to be imbalanced when taken as...

In his preface to God's Way of Holiness, Horatius Bonar makes the case that "the way of peace and the way of holiness lie side by side; or rather, they are one." If we as Christians want to have peace, we must have holiness. And if we want to have holiness, we must first have peace with God.

Peace & Holiness combines Bonar's two classic devotionals on these twin subjects, God's Way of Peace and God's Way of Holiness. In short and simple chapters, Bonar lays out the truths of how we come to God and find our peace in Him--and how His sanctifying...