Biblical Images of Salvation
Retired Educator
It has now been five or six years since I wrote a series of twenty four essays on the subject of Atonement. Upon completion of that year-long project, I was satisfied that I had done my homework as best as I could at the time. In the process I had deconstructed a lot of atonement “theories” proposed through the centuries of church history and had begun reaching for a better way of reflecting on what the biblical concept of salvation entails.
Somewhere along the way of my spiritual journey, quite early in fact, I had begun to wonder why it was that the church was propagating “theories” when talking about salvation. In high school I had learned that scientific theories, for example, were the best explanations scientists could think of to explain certain phenomena. But because they were theories, they were not etched in stone because someday a better explanation might emerge.