Images of salvation in the New Testament /
Colijn, Brenda B., 1952-
Images of salvation in the New Testament / Brenda B. Colijn. - Downers Grove, Ill. : IVP Academic, c2010. - 335 p. ; 23 cm.
Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
On method -- Inheritance in the new covenant -- Citizens of the kingdom, disciples of the king -- The life of the age to come: eternal life -- I am about to do a new thing: regeneration, new creation -- Deliverance belongs to the Lord: S|ot|eria as rescue and healing -- My chains fell off, my heart was free: redemption, ransom, freedom, forgiveness -- No longer strangers: reconciliation, adoption, peace -- Justification by faith(fulness) -- Election in Christ for the sake of the world -- Transformation by participation: being in Christ, glorification, theosis -- A people holy to the lord: Sanctification, perfection -- Call to endurance: pilgrimage, contest, worship.
Colijn embraces a critical-realist methodology that incorporates New Testament theology, literary criticism and theological interpretation. She advocates listening to the individual authors of Scripture in their own social-cultural and historical settings, while looking for how the texts work both individually and collectively at a literary level. --from publisher description.
9780830838721 (pbk. : alk. paper) 0830838724 (pbk. : alk. paper)
2010019868
Bible.--N.T.--Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Salvation--Christianity--Biblical teaching.
BS2545.S25 / C65 2010
234
Images of salvation in the New Testament / Brenda B. Colijn. - Downers Grove, Ill. : IVP Academic, c2010. - 335 p. ; 23 cm.
Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
On method -- Inheritance in the new covenant -- Citizens of the kingdom, disciples of the king -- The life of the age to come: eternal life -- I am about to do a new thing: regeneration, new creation -- Deliverance belongs to the Lord: S|ot|eria as rescue and healing -- My chains fell off, my heart was free: redemption, ransom, freedom, forgiveness -- No longer strangers: reconciliation, adoption, peace -- Justification by faith(fulness) -- Election in Christ for the sake of the world -- Transformation by participation: being in Christ, glorification, theosis -- A people holy to the lord: Sanctification, perfection -- Call to endurance: pilgrimage, contest, worship.
Colijn embraces a critical-realist methodology that incorporates New Testament theology, literary criticism and theological interpretation. She advocates listening to the individual authors of Scripture in their own social-cultural and historical settings, while looking for how the texts work both individually and collectively at a literary level. --from publisher description.
9780830838721 (pbk. : alk. paper) 0830838724 (pbk. : alk. paper)
2010019868
Bible.--N.T.--Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Salvation--Christianity--Biblical teaching.
BS2545.S25 / C65 2010
234