PREFACE Salvation is one of the great themes of the Bible. For this reason the idea of salvation-history (heilsgeschichte) is considered by many to be the driving force behind the development of the biblical text. Certainly from the time of Abraham, if not from the fall in the garden, God’s acts and words within human history have been to elicit a response to His offer of redemption that culminated in the offering of the Son of God on the cross. Yet there is a more inclusive “center” for theology
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