My summer, 2012, project will be to complete a book on salvation in the Bible that I have been working on for a number of years, with the tentative title, Instead of Atonement: The Bible’s Salvation Story. I posted an earlier draft of the book as well as a set of September 12, 2009 lectures presented at the London Mennonite Centre that were a kind of summary of the book. Those lectures are posted here in an unedited version. Just recently I have posted a number of short essays on the theme of salvation on my Thinking Pacifism blog (with some good discussion with various readers).
BOOK CHAPTERS from 2004 draft
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 (September 2009)
1. Salvation From or By Violence
2. Salvation in the Old Testament
3. Jesus’ Teaching on Salvation
4. Jesus’ Death and Resurrection
5. Salvation in Romans and Revelation
THINKING PACIFISM blog posts
Does Jesus’ Death Have Meaning? (December 11, 2011)
Jesus’ Death and My Salvation (December 18, 2011)
Does Paul Agree with Jesus about Salvation? (December 23, 2011)
Christian Salvation: Do the Questions Never End? (January 1, 2012)
Are All Sins the Same Before God? (January 27, 2012)
Christian Salvation: More and More Questions, Part 1 (February 5, 2012)
Christian Salvation: More and More Questions, Part 2 (February 8, 2012)
Christian Salvation: More and More Questions, Part 3 (February 10, 2012)
Reflecting on Jesus’ Cross (April 6, 2012)
