Fortress Introduction to Salvation and the Cross(English, Paperback, Brondos David A.)

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Fortress Introduction to Salvation and the Cross(English, Paperback, Brondos David A.) is written by Brondos David A. and published by Augsburg Fortress Publishers. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 0800662164 (ISBN 10) and 9780800662165 (ISBN 13).

In this masterful survey and analysis of 2000 years of Christian reflection on salvation, theologian David Brondos lays bare the diverse and even competing understandings, their social context and development, and their strengths and weaknesses. Concentrating on eleven of the most important figures, Brondos unfolds each as pursuing a distinctive story of salvation or atonement. The eleven figures include Isaiah, Luke, Paul, Irenaeus, Gregory of Nyssa, Anselm, Martin Luther, John Calvin, Albrecht Ritschl, Karl Barth, Rudolf Bultmann, Jon Sobrino, and Rosemary Radford Ruether.