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Getting “Saved”: The Whole Story of Salvation in the New Testament is unavailable, but you can change that!

What does it mean to “get saved”? Is conversion a gift of God’s grace but the post-conversion Christian life in our own hands? Is the covenant relationship sustained by a sense of personal gratitude for God’s past gift of conversion—or is post-conversion faithfulness itself an ongoing gift from God? In this book, Charles H. Talbert and Jason A. Whitlark, together with Andrew E. Arterbury,...

Scott J. Hafemann Through a close reading of the theological logic of 2 Pet 1:8–10a, this essay raises the central question of the relationship between divine agency (“indicatives”) and human agency (“imperatives”) in NT soteriology. The argument demonstrates that obedience to God’s commands is not conceived of as the believer’s distinct “response” to God’s prior work in his or her life. Rather, increasing virtue is the
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