Who Can Be Saved?: Reassessing Salvation in Christ and World Religions

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InterVarsity Press, 20.9.2009
Throughout history millions have lived and died without hearing the gospel of Jesus Christ. Despite vigorous missionary efforts, large populations of the world today have never been evangelized. And now religious pluralism has set up shop on Main Street. The question "Who can be saved?" forces itself on the minds of Christians like never before.
  • Is there a wideness in God's mercy?
  • Does God reveal himself in a way that invites all people to respond positively in saving faith?
  • Does one have to be an Arminian to believe so?
  • Or is there a way for Calvinists to see how God might reveal and save apart from the explicit "gospel" and yet exclusively through Jesus Christ?
  • And if so, what does this say about the role of religions within the sovereign providence of God?
These are big questions requiring thoughtful care. In this intriguing study, Terrance L. Tiessen reassesses the questions of salvation and the role of religions and offers a proposal that is biblically rooted, theologically articulated and missiologically sensitive. This is a book that will set new terms for the discussion of these important issues.
 

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Acknowledgments
9
Where Are We Going?
11
What Are the Options?
31
Is Accessibilism a New Idea?
48
HOW DOES GOD SAVE PEOPLE?
71
Who Needs to Be Saved?
73
Whom Is God Trying to Save?
83
To Whom Does God Reveal Himself?
104
What About the Saved Who Did Not Believe in Jesus?
165
Can Infants Be Saved?
204
Who Is Able to Believe?
230
Why Should We Send Missionaries?
259
HOW DO THE RELIGIONS FIT INTO GODS PURPOSES IN THE WORLD?
295
How Do Religions Come into Being?
297
How Did the Covenant People Relate to Other Religions?
323
Glossary
483

By What Standard Are People Judged?
123
Can People Be Saved If They Only Have General Revelation?
138
Author Index
498
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Terrance Tiessen is Professor Emeritus of Systematic Theology and Ethics at Providence Theological Seminary in Otterburne, Manitoba. He has written Irenaeus on the Salvation of the Unevangelized and Providence and Prayer: How Does God Work in the World?

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OtsikkoWho Can Be Saved?: Reassessing Salvation in Christ and World Religions
KirjoittajaTerrance L. Tiessen
KustantajaInterVarsity Press, 2009
ISBN0830877703, 9780830877706
  
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