Marc Cortez is (PhD, University of St. Andrews) Associate Professor of Theology at Wheaton College. He is the author of Christological Anthropology in Historical Perspective, and Theological Anthropology: A Guide for the Perplexed. He also writes regularly on biblical and theological issues for his blog.Joshua R. Farris (PhD, University of Bristol, UK) is Assistant Professor of Theology at Houston Baptist University. Josh is a chief editor (with Charles Taliaferro) of the Ashgate Research Companion to Theological Anthropology (Ashgate, 2015). S. Mark Hamilton is a PhD candidate at the Free University of Amsterdam. Supervised by Dr. Oliver D. Crisp Mark is writing his doctoral thesis on the subject, Jonathan Edwards on Christ and Salvation. He is co-editor with (Joshua R. Farris and Jim S. Spiegel) of Idealism and Christianity: Idealism and Christian Theology, Vol. 1

This is a brilliant, multifaceted collection of original, engaging essays on the Christian concept of salvation. Being Saved is evidence of the dynamic, robust flourishing today of Christian philosophy and theology.

• Foreword by Michael Horton Introduction: Being Saved – Explorations in Human Salvation - Marc Cortez, Joshua R. Farris and S. Mark Hamilton Part 1 Sin, Evil and Salvation 1. Identity Through Time and Personal Salvation - Ryan T. Mullins 2. Divine Hiddenness, the Soteriological Problem of Evil and Berkeleyan Idealism - Greg Trickett and Tyler Taber 3. Retributivism Rejected: A Restorative Hope for Justice in the Age to Come - Jonathan Rutledge 4. Peter Abelard on Original Sin - Daniel W. Houck 5. Reparative Substitution and the ‘Efficacy Objection’: Toward a Modified Satisfaction Theory of Atonement - Joshua R. Farris and S. Mark Hamilton Part 2 The Nature of Salvation 6. Theosis and Participation - Oliver D. Crisp 7. Ascension and Pentecost: A View from the Divine Missions - Adonis Vidu 8. Saved by Degrees? Augustine’s Ontological Pluralism - Katherine Kirkpatrick 9. Spirit, Selfhood and Salvation - Myk Habets 10. Christian Doctrines of Humanity and Salvation Provide Theological Foundations for Virtue Epistemology - Benjamin H. Arbour Part 3 The Process of Salvation 11. The Doctrine of Predestination and a Modified Hylomorphic Theory of Human Souls - Andrew Loke 12. The Priority of Justification to Sanctification - John V. Fesko 13. Barth and Boethius on Stellvertretung and Personhood - Adam Johnson 14. Being Christ: Salvation and Bonhoeffer’s Christo-Ecclesiology - W. Madison Grace II 15. Redeeming the Eucharist: Transignification and Justification - James M. Arcadi 16. Regeneration and the Spirit - Paul Helm Part 4 The Body, the Mind and Salvation 17. Two Visions of Being Saved as Deiform Perfectibility - Carl Mosser 18. Theological Musings on Mental Illness: Between Sin and Sanctification - Hans Madueme 19. Saving Panpsychism: A Panpsychist Ontology and Christian Soteriology - Joanna Leidenhag 20. The Body and the Beatific Vision - Marc Cortez Index