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The Significance of Salvation: A Study of Salvation Language in the Pastoral Epistles is unavailable, but you can change that!

The language and ideas of salvation pervade the three Pastoral Epistles. This study offers a close examination of their soteriological statements. In all three letters the idea of salvation is found to play a vital paraenetic role, but each also exhibits distinctive soteriological emphases. The results challenge common assumptions about the Pastoral Epistles as a corpus.

The letter’s paraenetic character must be borne in mind as we read it for indications of the author’s soteriology. In such a context theology is at the service of praxis, with themes and emphases affected by hortatory goals. For a study of salvation this is not altogether a disadvantage. To motivate his readers, the author rehearses soteriological convictions. In this letter all five occurrences of σῴζω and cognate terms are in ministry contexts. Timothy’s call is from
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