Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction: Mapping theologies of salvation / Justin S. Holcomb -- Patristic theologies of salvation: an introduction / D.H. Williams -- Origen of Alexandria / Thomas P. Scheck -- Irenaeus of Lyons / John Behr -- Saint Augustine / David Vincent Meconi, SJ -- Athanasius / John Yocum -- The Cappadocians / Andrew Radde-Gallwitz -- Theologies of salvation in the Middle Ages: an introduction / David Hogg -- Anselm of Canterbury / Giles E.M. Gasper -- Saint Thomas Aquinas / R. Jared Staudt -- Julian of Norwich / Kerrie Hide -- Theologies of salvation in the Reformation and Counter-Reformation: an introduction / Frank A. James III -- Martin Luther / Carl R. Trueman -- John Calvin / J. Todd Billings -- The Catholic reform / Donald S. Prudlo -- Theologies of salvation from the eighteenth to twenty-first centuries: an introduction / Ryan M. Reeves -- John Wesley / Thomas H. McCall -- Friedrich Schleiermacher's theology of salvation / James R. Gordon -- Karl Barth / Tom Greggs -- Hans Urs von Balthasar and Karl Rahner / W.T. Dickens -- Gustavo Guti�errez / Michael Edward Lee.

Salvation - redemption or deliverance from sin - has been a key focus of Christian theology since the first days of the church. Theologians from St. Augustine to Karl Barth have debated the finer points of salvation for nearly as long, offering a bewildering array of competing and often contradictory theories. Christian Theologies of Salvation explores the ways in which pivotal theological figures have attempted to answer these questions, tracing doctrines of salvation from the first century into the twenty-first century. Each chapter focuses on a different major theologian, first presenting the theologian's doctrine of salvation, then highlighting how the doctrine makes a distinct contribution to the church's overall dogma. The volume offers a comparative focus, including doctrines of salvation that reflect the historical development of Catholic, Orthodox, and Protestant views. By illuminating the ways in which doctrines of salvation have evolved over the church's history, Justin Holcomb takes us across the teachings of Origin and Augustine, John Calvin and Martin Luther, and eventually to the more modern theologies of Karl Barth and Gustavo Gutierrez. A much-needed map to the options and implications of different theologies of salvation, this book is essential reading for students and scholars of Christian thought.