Images of salvation in the New Testament / [print]
Brenda B. Colijn.
- Downers Grove, Illinois : IVP Academic, (c)2010.
- 335 pages ; 23 cm
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: Sōtēria 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. ~ Publisher description.