Includes bibliographical references and index.

Redemption : some crucial issues / Gerald O'Collins -- Biblical questions -- Reconciliation and the plain sense witness of scripture / Christopher Seitz -- Paul and the metaphors for salvation :some reflections on Pauline soteriology / Gordon D. Fee -- Redemption from the new perspective : towards a multilayered Pauline theology of the cross / N.T. Wright -- God made Christ to be sin (2 Corinthians 5: 21) : reflections on a Pauline paradox / Jean Nol Aletti -- Israels redeemer is the one to whom and withwhom she prays / Peter Ochs -- Patristic and medieval periods -- He himself is our peace (Eph. 2: 14) : early Christian views of redemption in Christ / Brian Daley -- The power in the blood : sacrifice, satisfaction, and substitution in late medieval soteriology / Caroline Walker Bynum -- Foundational and systematic issues -- Narrative and the problem of evil : suffering and redemption / Eleonore Stump -- Karma or grace / Stephen T. Davis -- Catholic Protestant views of justification : how should Christians view theological disagreements? / C. Stephen Evans -- The redemption practised and proclaimed -- Graven with an iron pen : the persistence of redemption as a theme in literature / Robert Kiely -- Images of redemption in art and music / David Brown -- The redemption of the created order : sermons on Romans 8 / Marguerite Shuster.

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