Tag: Salvation

Free Download Mark Scarlata, "Wine, Soil, and Salvation in the Hebrew Bible and New Testament"
English | ISBN: 1009551116 | 2025 | 261 pages | PDF | 2 MB
Biblical authors used wine as a potent symbol and metaphor of material blessing and salvation, as well as a sign of judgement. In this volume, Mark Scarlata provides a biblical theology of wine through exploration of texts in the Hebrew Bible, later Jewish writings, and the New Testament. He shows how, from the beginnings of creation and the story of Noah, wine is intimately connected to soil, humanity, and harmony between humans and the natural world. In the Prophets, wine functions both as a symbol of blessing and judgement through the metaphor of the cup of salvation and the cup of wrath. In other scriptures, wine is associated with wisdom, joy, love, celebration, and the expectations of the coming Messiah. In the New Testament wine becomes a critical sign for the presence of God’s kingdom on earth and a symbol of Christian unity and life through the eucharistic cup. Scarlata’s study also explores the connections between the biblical and modern worlds regarding ecology and technology, and why wine remains an important sign of salvation for humanity today.

Free Download The Roles of Christ’s Humanity in Salvation: Insights from Theodore of Mopsuestia By Frederick G. McLeod
2005 | 278 Pages | ISBN: 0813213967 | PDF | 1 MB
Theodore of Mopsuestia was hailed in his lifetime as one of the outstanding theologians and bishops in the second half of the fourth and early fifth centuries. He was then and still is respected as the preeminent spokesperson for the School of Antioch’s unwavering defense of Christ’s full humanity and its exegetical approach to the Scriptures. But within ten years after his death in 428, his enemies began to attack him openly, eventually succeeding in condemning both his works and person at the Second Council of Constantinople in 553. He has since been declared by some as the "Father of Nestorianism." In this book, Frederick G. McLeod first establishes the principal influences that shaped Theodore’s exegetical outlook. He then draws out the typology that Theodore sees present between Adam and Christ’s humanity, exploring three major roles that Christ’s humanity plays as the head of all human immortal existence, the bond of the universe, and the perfect image of God. Next McLeod shows how Theodore’s customary word for Christ’s "person" (prosōpon) ought to be understood in a functional way. The book concludes by applying these insights to the 71 excerpts that were used to condemn Theodore at the Second Council of Constantinople and proposing that these passages can be interpreted in a different, non-heretical way. This book enables one to judge Theodore’s christological statements in the wider context of how he conceives of Christ’s roles in salvation. It establishes clearly how Christ can be said to be a true mediator between the Father and all creation. It also makes one aware of the communal dimensions and relationships contained in the notion of "person." Finally, it indicates how the body plays an essential role in human and cosmic salvation.

Free Download Ellen Scully, "Human Salvation in Early Christianity: Exploring the Theology of Physicalist Soteriology"
English | ISBN: 1009525336 | 2025 | 339 pages | PDF | 2 MB
Human salvation has been at the heart of Christian theological debate ever since the earliest centuries of Christianity. In this period, some Christians argued that because all of humanity falls in Adam, the incarnation of Christ, who is the second Adam, must also have a universal effect. Ellen Scully here presents the first historical study of Early Christian theology regarding physicalist soteriology, a logic by which Christ’s incarnation has universal effects independent of individual belief or consent. Analyzing the writings of Athanasius, Hilary of Poitiers, Marius Victorinus, Gregory of Nyssa, Cyril of Alexandria, and Maximus the Confessor, she offers an overview of the historical rise and fall of the theological logic of physicalist soteriology. Scully also provides an analysis of how Early Christian theological debates concerning ascetism and ensoulment models have caused Christian narratives of salvation history to become individualistic, and suggests how a contemporary study of physicalist soteriology can help reverse this trend.

Free Download Keith Stanglin, "Arminius on the Assurance of Salvation: The Context, Roots, and Shape of the Leiden Debate, 1603-1609"
English | 2007 | pages: 304 | ISBN: 9004156089 | PDF | 1,6 mb
Although scholarship has treated, on the one hand, some aspects of Jacobus Arminius’s theology, and on the other hand, the doctrine of assurance in the Reformed theologians of early Protestant orthodoxy, nevertheless proper attention has not yet been given to the intersection of these topics: Arminius’s doctrine of assurance. With special attention to previously neglected primary sources, this book offers stimulating insights into the academic context of Arminius, and, along with a comparative analysis of his colleagues at Leiden University, explores new horizons in his doctrines of salvation and assurance. Arminius’s search for true assurance of salvation emerges as a decisive factor in his famous dissent from Reformed theology.

Free Download Churchill’s Trial: Winston Churchill and the Salvation of Free Government by Larry P. Arnn
English | October 13, 2015 | ISBN: 1595555307 | 416 pages | PDF | 3.54 Mb
No statesman shaped the twentieth century more than Winston Churchill. To know the full Churchill is to understand the combination of boldness and caution, of assertiveness and humility, that defines statesmanship at its best. With fresh perspective and insights based on decades of studying and teaching Churchill, Larry P. Arnn explores the greatest challenges faced by Churchill over the course of his extraordinary career, both in war and peace-and always in the context of Churchill’s abiding dedication to constitutionalism.

Free Download Ros Black, "Scandal, Salvation and Suffrage"
English | ISBN: 1784621706 | 2015 | 160 pages | EPUB | 2 MB
In a time when women had no vote, their temperance work made the voices of many heard and their actions count. Exploring a forgotten but vital element of women’s history, Scandal, Salvation and Suffrage demonstrates how closely the temperance campaign was linked to the fight for suffrage.

Free Download George R. Knight, "Sin and Salvation: God’s Work for and in Us"
English | 2009 | pages: 185 | ISBN: 082802068X, 0828028869 | PDF | 7,2 mb
There is no more important topic than God’s plan of salvation for a lost world.

Free Download Ken Ham, "Gospel Reset: Salvation Made Relevant"
English | ISBN: 1683441141 | 2018 | 128 pages | EPUB, PDF | 1420 KB + 3 MB
Our gospel conversations can be far more effective. Today’s increasingly secular culture requires a new approach.

Free Download Erika K.R. Stalcup, "Sensing Salvation in Early British Methodism "
English | ISBN: 1032397748 | 2023 | 200 pages | EPUB, PDF | 2 MB + 3 MB
This book examines the spiritual experiences of the first British Methodist lay people and the language used to describe those experiences. It reflects on physical manifestations such as shouting, weeping, groaning, visions, and out-of-body experiences and their role in the process of spiritual development. These experiences offer an intimate perspective on the surprisingly holistic origins of the evangelical revival. The study features autobiographical narratives and other first-hand manuscripts in which "ordinary" lay people recount their first impressions of Methodism, their conflicted feelings throughout the conversion process, their approach toward death and dying, and their mixed attitudes toward the task of writing itself. The book will be relevant to scholars of Methodism, evangelicalism and religious history as well as those interested in emotions and religious experience.

Free Download Salvation Through Slavery: Chiricahua Apaches and Priests on the Spanish Colonial Frontier
by H. Henrietta Stockel
English | 2022 | ISBN: 0826343260 | 192 Pages | ePUB | 1.45 MB