“Focusing on our own salvation (or wholeness) may actually prevent us, if we are among the privileged, from understanding the ‘cosmological’ event that salvation is. Charis, love, is not simply a consequence of the Gospel; it bespeaks a fundamental displacement of self that is inherent in knowing the Gospel at all. It is indeed part of the good news that the story of salvation does not center upon me. The story is not anthropocentric in any of the ways we seek to make it so. It centers instead upon that which is the ultimate reality, the source and center of all creation: the exceeding glory of God.” Walter Lowe, “Christ and Salvation,” in The Cambridge Companion to Postmodern Theology, ed. Kevin J. Vanhoozer (Cambridge University Press, 2003), 250.
Posted on: Sat, 15 Jun 2013 13:55:22 +0000
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