Who Will Be Saved?: Defending the Biblical Understanding of
ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: House, Paul R. / Thornbury, Greg A., PUBLISHER: Crossway Books, Of ong>ong>theong>ong> many doctrinal challenges facing ong>ong>theong>ong> church today, ong>ong>theong>ong> most critical may be opposition to ong>ong>theong>ong> traditional, biblical view of ong>Godong> and ong>ong>theong>ong> doctrine of salvation. For centuries ong>Christiansong> agreed that ong>Godong> is sovereign, that He does not change, that He is both kind and all-powerful. Yet in recent decades process ong>ong>theong>ong>ologians have regularly depicted ong>Godong> as a constantly evolving deity, and postmodernists have defined Him in diverse, even contradictory ways. A number of scholars--some with evangelical roots or affiliations--have even gone so far as to claim that salvation may come through oong>ong>theong>ong>r religions and not exclusively through a conscious personal relationship with Jesus Christ. Given ong>ong>theong>ong>se internal and external challenges, evangelical Christianity must reassert ong>ong>theong>ong> inerrant, biblical definition of ong>Godong> and ong>ong>theong>ong> doctrine of salvation, and do so in a way that is convincing in our postmodern setting. That is ong>ong>theong>ong> goal of Who Will Be Saved? Some of ong>ong>theong>ong> most significant figures in evangelical ong>ong>theong>ong>ology--including Carl F.H. Henry, D. A. Carson, and R. Albert Mohler--explore ong>ong>theong>ong> traditional view of salvation through a contemporary lens, beginning with ong>ong>theong>ong> doctrine of ong>Godong> as ong>ong>theong>ong> author of salvation. ong>ong>Theong>ong>y ong>ong>theong>ong>n move on to ong>ong>theong>ong> pressing matters confronting ong>Christiansong> today--ong>ong>theong>ong> exclusivity of Christianity, ong>ong>theong>ong> work of ong>ong>theong>ong> church, our evangelism strategies--that are driven by one's conclusions about ong>ong>theong>ong> doctrine of ong>Godong>. ong>ong>Theong>ong> biblical response to inclusivist perspectives presented here will empower ong>Christiansong> to faithfully and convincingly continue declaring ong>ong>theong>ong> gospel message in ong>ong>theong>ong>se postmodern times.