(Continued from Part 2) (Or you can start with Part 1) If looking at salvation as a human right can be seen as valid, then the question is whether it is useful. What, if anything, can be gained from this perspective. Here are a few VERY TENTATIVE suggestions. It firmly places salvation within a community. …
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Salvation as a Human Right? (pt 2 of 3)
(Continuation from Part One) In Evangelical circles, at least, salvation has been classically framed in a CRIMINAL JUSTICE model. We are all sinners, guilty before God, the judge. Salvation is only available through the payment of the judgment against us... that price was paid by Jesus. This is a perfectly fine way of looking at …
Salvation as a Human Right? (pt 1 of 3)
I have been reading the essay, “Women Confronting State-Instigated Violence” by Darlene Marquez-Caramanzana. This is not normally the type of writing I would be reading, but it was part of a book that was gifted to me by Father Terry from Aglipay Central Theological Seminary. The book is a collection of essays and poems of …