Have You Been Saved?: A History of the Question - Couverture souple

Waren, Christina

Couverture souple

ISBN 13 : 9798188242220

Editeur : Independently published, 2026

Synopsis

It’s one of the first questions many Christians are ever asked—and one of the last questions most are ever encouraged to investigate.

I grew up believing the answer was settled. I assumed that every faithful Christian, in every century, had understood salvation the same way I did. Years of studying Scripture, church history, and the development of Christian doctrine revealed how much that assumption was hiding.

Have You Been Saved? A History of the Question does not argue that one theology of salvation must be accepted over every other. It is a historical investigation built chapter by chapter around specific Greek and Hebrew words, biblical texts, and the moments across two thousand years when Christians genuinely—and sometimes sharply—disagreed about what those words and texts meant.

Following the question of salvation from the earliest pages of the Bible to the modern church, this book examines not only what Christians believe, but when those beliefs emerged, how they developed, and why they remain disputed.

Inside, you’ll trace:

• What the word “saved” meant before it became associated with an altar-call moment
• Five competing explanations of what the cross accomplished
• How baptism became one of Christianity’s earliest and most enduring divisions
• Where teachings such as the sinner’s prayer, the pretribulational rapture, and the “Jezebel spirit” came from
• What Jesus meant by “the kingdom,” salvation, and eternal life—and why later Christians often disagreed

Where scholars remain divided, this book says so honestly. Where popular claims do not hold up to scrutiny, it says that too—regardless of which side of a debate they support.

This book is written especially for readers who, like me, were raised inside a tradition convinced that it had preserved the one true, unbroken understanding of salvation reaching back to the apostles.

You do not have to leave anything behind to read it honestly. You only have to be willing to ask whether the answer you inherited was the only answer Christian history has ever given.

By the final page, I hope you will understand why Christian history has never produced only one answer to that question—and why that is not a reason to stop asking it.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Independently published
• Date d'édition: 2026
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 13: 9798188242220
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 243
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