Who Will Be Saved?

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William H. Willimon. Who Will Be Saved?

THE GOD WHO REFUSES TO BE ALONE

SALVATION AS GOD'S WORK

THE GOSPEL OF SALVATION

CREATION CONTINUED

THE EROS OF GOD

ETERNAL LIFE

LEARNING TO ENDURE THE LOVE OF JESUS

DIVINE ABUNDANCE

ALL?

WHO IS SAVED?

FOR WHAT MIGHT WE HOPE?

CHRIST TRIUMPHANT

ALL?

THE CHURCH AND SALVATION

DAMNED?

SALVATION TAKES TIME

PURGATORY FOR PROTESTANTS?

IN THE END, REDEMPTION

WHAT ABOUT THEM?

JESUS THE ONLY WAY?

THE OTHER AS GIFT OF GOD

STRANGE SALVATION

ATONEMENT

NO SALVATION OUTSIDE THE CHURCH

SALVATION AS ASSIGNMENT

AT THE END, GOD

A CONCLUDING POSTSCRIPT

NOTES

SCRIPTURE INDEX

INDEX OF NAMES

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CHAPTER ONE

When thoughts of a book on salvation were percolating in me, a friend of some years approached me with a question that had become his obsession. He told me that he grew up in a small-town Baptist church. As a youth he "accepted Jesus as [his] personal savior and [he] knew that [he] was saved." He was active in church until his late teenaged years when other interests drew him away. As a young man, when he married, he returned to the church, partly because of his wife's piety.

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What is the gospel? Karl Barth says that when we say "gospel," good news, we are talking about salvation, about the mighty acts that God has worked pro nobis:

The gospel is constituted by the mighty acts of God in history for the liberation of the cosmos. It is not a set of rickety arguments about the divine order; it is not the expression of some sublime religious experience brought mysteriously to verbal form; it is not a romantic report about awareness of God in nature; it is not a speculative, philosophical theory about the nature of ultimate reality; it is not a set of pious or moral maxims designed to straighten out the world; it is not a legalistic lament about the meanness of human nature; it is not a sentimental journey down memory lane into ancient history. It is the unique narrative of what God has done to inaugurate [God's] kingdom in Jesus of Nazareth, crucified outside Jerusalem, risen from the dead, seated at the right hand of God, and now reigning eternally with the Father, through the activity of the Holy Spirit, in the church and in the world. Where this is not announced, it will not be known.7

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