THE way of salvation—or the ordo salutis—is actually the application to man of the salvation which was won for him by Christ in His three-fold office of prophet, priest, and king. Theologians have had a lot of trouble with the word application. For one thing it has been criticized as dividing up salvation into objective and subjective sides—the divine and the human—with each placed mechanically opposite the other. It has also been pointed out that the notion of a way
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