The God Who Saves: A Dogmatic Sketch

The God Who Saves: A Dogmatic Sketch

Christian universalism has been explored in its biblical, philosophical, and historical dimensions. For the first time, The God Who Saves explores it in systematic theological perspective. In doing so it also offers a fresh take on universal salvation, one that is postmetaphysical, existential, and hermeneutically critical. The result is a constructive account of soteriology that does justice to both the universal scope of divine grace and the historicity of human existence.

In The God Who Saves David W. Congdon orients theology systematically around the New Testament witness to the apocalyptic inbreaking of God's reign. The result is a consistently soteriocentric theology. Building on the insights of Rudolf Bultmann, Ernst KÃ¤semann, Eberhard JÃ¼ngel, and J. Louis Martyn, he interprets the saving act of God as the eschatological event that crucifies the old cosmos in Christ. Human beings participate in salvation through their unconscious, existential cocrucifixion, in which each person is interrupted by God and placed outside of himself or herself.

Both academically rigorous and pastorally sensitive, The God Who Saves opens up new possibilities for understanding not only what salvation is but also who the God who brings about our salvation is. Here is an interdisciplinary exercise in dogmatic theology for the twenty-first century.

"David Congdon and I grew up together theologically. It has been my privilege to watch his penetrating insight grow and develop into a creative theological program. Rumors of dialectical theology's demise have been greatly exaggerated. If you are interested in a glimpse of what a fresh dialectical theology for the twenty-first century looks like--and you should be!--you need look no further."
--W. Travis McMaken, Associate Professor of Religion, Lindenwood University

"While theÂ idea of universal salvation has long been a minority report in the Christian tradition, it has found an increasing number of advocatesÂ in recent times. This volume providesÂ aÂ rigorous, creative, and comprehensiveÂ dogmaticÂ account ofÂ thisÂ belief from one of the brightest young scholars at work today.Â Even those who are not in agreement with Congdon'sÂ line of argument and conclusions will be challengedÂ and enriched by the detail and scope of his engagingÂ theological vision."
--John R. Franke, Theologian in Residence, Second Presbyterian Church, Indianapolis; Author, Manifold Witness: The Plurality of Truth

"Congdon has authored a sophisticated and ambitious dogmatic essay full of insight and bristling with provocation. He invites us to join him in a sustained experiment in radically soteriocentric thinking: what if the work of the God of the gospel on the cross were truly the Archimedean point from whichÂ all thingsÂ are moved and so saved?Â Congdon's aim is to limn the revolution in Christian theology that should follow when Christian imagination and intelligence are animated and disciplined anew by faith in the God whose very being is at stake in his advent 'for us and for our salvation.'Â The God Who SavesÂ is an important intervention in contemporary doctrinal debate."
--Philip G. Ziegler, Chair of Christian Dogmatics, Professor, University of Aberdeen

David W. Congdon (PhD, Princeton Theological Seminary) is associate editor at IVP Academic. He is the author of The Mission of Demythologizing: Rudolf Bultmann's Dialectical Theology (2015) and Rudolf Bultmann: A Companion to His Theology (2015).
Country USA
Author David W. Congdon
Binding Kindle Edition
EISBN 9781532608490
Format Kindle eBook
IsAdultProduct
NumberOfPages 318
PublicationDate 2016-09-25
ReleaseDate 2016-09-25

Country	USA
Author	David W. Congdon
Binding	Kindle Edition
EISBN	9781532608490
Format	Kindle eBook
IsAdultProduct
NumberOfPages	318
PublicationDate	2016-09-25
ReleaseDate	2016-09-25

The God Who Saves: A Dogmatic Sketch

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