I am working and, hopefully, nearing completion of a book on salvation in the Bible, with the tentative title, Mercy Not Sacrifice: The Bible’s Salvation Story and Our Hope for Wholeness. I plan to post chapters from this book here as I have them ready. Also, on September 12, 2009, I presented a series of lectures at the London Mennonite Centre on this topic–a kind of summary of the book. Those lectures are posted here in an unedited version.
BOOK CHAPTERS
1. Violence as a Theological Problem
2. Salvation in the Old Testament
3. Guardians for the Way of Wholeness: Salvation in the Prophets
4. Jesus’ Teaching on Salvation
6. Jesus’ Death and the Powers: Cultural Exclusivism (Law)
7. Jesus’ Death and the Powers: Religious Institutionalism (Temple)
8. Jesus’ Death and the Powers: Political Authoritarianism (Empire)
10. God’s Saving Justice: Paul and Salvation
11. Salvation Through Revelation
12. Is There an Atonement Theory in This Story?
LONDON LECTURES
1. Salvation From or By Violence
2. Salvation in the Old Testament
3. Jesus’ Teaching on Salvation
