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May Update Coming up this month... Well, finally, after much hoo-har and muffled fanfare, we're ready to launch the Melbourne Chapter of the Dead Apologists' Society.
NEXT TIME: I'll start off with a brief introduction to the ideas behind the Dead Apologists' Society... followed by an awkward silence of around 5 minutes when those who did not know what they were getting themselves into can escape with minimal embarrassment. (In the meantime, for more info, click here.) Since this will take no more than 10 minutes, we will then be discussing.... (drumroll)... a new book edited by John Stackhouse of Regent College entitled What Does it Mean to Be Saved: Broadening Evangelical Horizons of Salvation. (Grand Rapids, Mich.: Baker Book House, 2002)
Here's a blurb from the web page...
Since the birth of evangelicalism in the eighteenth century, it has defined itself as a movement keenly interested in salvation. What, however, is the evangelical understanding of salvation today? What should it be?
What Does It Mean to Be Saved? brings together leading evangelical scholars to probe what evangelicalism has taught about salvation in the past and to encourage reflection on its meaning for the future. Each chapter introduces a distinctive point of view on an aspect of redemption. Issues addressed in the volume include individual and corporate salvation, salvation with regard to women, the poor, the oppressed, and the natural world.
Students of theology and missions as well as pastors and thoughtful readers interested in the evangelical understanding of salvation will benefit from this important and timely contribution.
Contributors include Loren Wilkinson, Henri Blocher, Amy Sherman, Rikki Watts, Cherith Fee Nordling, Vince Bacote, Bruce Hindmarsh, John Webster, and Jonathan Wilson.
Endorsements "A dozen first-class essayists show us 'how wide and long and high and deep is the love of Christ,' and they do so to wonderful effect. Here, at last, salvation is much bigger than we are."-Rev. Cornelius Plantinga, Jr., president, Calvin Theological Seminary "The essays in this volume helpfully suggest a broadening of the horizons of an evangelical doctrine of salvation. The book will help us not to trivialize the topic in merely private terms, without a holistic vision, but to give more attention to its this-worldly consequences."-Clark Pinnock, McMaster Divinity College
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