During our last Table Talk gathering before Christmas, which came hot on the heels of our conversations about salvation and atonement, we began to discuss the question, “Who is Jesus?” We thought about how we might respond in a scenario in which a person, perhaps from another country and from a different cultural context, sits […]
Our conversation on salvation and atonement focused on two questions at our most recent gathering: (i) how do our understandings of salvation fare in the interaction between Christianity and other faith traditions? And, (ii) how is the issue of “faith versus works” related to salvation? These two questions seemed to us to be pieces of
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We began our continuing conversation on “salvation” by looking at just a few of the ways in which people have understood atonement over the centuries. We started by summarizing very briefly some of the historical ideas, as follows: Anselm’s Satisfaction Model: Anselm of Canterbury (1033 – 1109) developed the idea that sinful humanity owes God
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