Christian universalism has been explored in its biblical, philosophical, and ancient dimensions. For the 1st time, The God Who Saves explores it in systematic theological viewpoint. In doing so it additionally bargains a clean tackle common salvation, person who is postmetaphysical, existential, and hermeneutically serious. the result's a optimistic account of soteriology that does justice to either the common scope of divine grace and the historicity of human existence.

In The God Who Saves David W. Congdon orients theology systematically round the New testomony witness to the apocalyptic inbreaking of God's reign. the result's a continually soteriocentric theology. development at the insights of Rudolf Bultmann, Ernst Käsemann, Eberhard Jüngel, and J. Louis Martyn, he translates the saving act of God because the eschatological occasion that crucifies the previous cosmos in Christ. humans perform salvation via their subconscious, existential cocrucifixion, within which all people is interrupted via God and positioned open air of himself or herself.

Both academically rigorous and pastorally delicate, The God Who Saves opens up new percentages for figuring out not just what salvation is but additionally who the God who brings approximately our salvation is. here's an interdisciplinary workout in dogmatic theology for the twenty-first century.

"David Congdon and that i grew up jointly theologically. it's been my privilege to monitor his penetrating perception develop and become an inventive theological application. Rumors of dialectical theology's loss of life were drastically exaggerated. while you are drawn to a glimpse of what a clean dialectical theology for the twenty-first century appears to be like like--and you have to be!--you desire glance no further."
--W. Travis McMaken, affiliate Professor of faith, Lindenwood University

"While the idea of common salvation has lengthy been a minority file within the Christian culture, it has discovered progressively more advocates in contemporary instances. This quantity provides a rigorous, artistic, and comprehensive dogmatic account of this belief from one of many brightest younger students at paintings today. Even those who find themselves no longer in contract with Congdon's line of argument and conclusions may be challenged and enriched through the element and scope of his engaging theological vision."
--John R. Franke, Theologian in place of abode, moment Presbyterian Church, Indianapolis; writer, Manifold Witness: The Plurality of Truth

"Congdon has authored a worldly and impressive dogmatic essay jam-packed with perception and bristling with provocation. He invitations us to hitch him in a sustained scan in extensively soteriocentric considering: what if the paintings of the God of the gospel at the move have been really the Archimedean element from which all things are moved and so saved? Congdon's goal is to limn the revolution in Christian theology that are meant to stick to whilst Christian mind's eye and intelligence are lively and disciplined anew by means of religion within the God whose very being is at stake in his creation 'for us and for our salvation.' The God Who Saves is a huge intervention in modern doctrinal debate."
--Philip G. Ziegler, Chair of Christian Dogmatics, Professor, college of Aberdeen

David W. Congdon (PhD, Princeton Theological Seminary) is affiliate editor at IVP educational. he's the writer of The undertaking of Demythologizing: Rudolf Bultmann's Dialectical Theology (2015) and Rudolf Bultmann: A significant other to His Theology (2015).