The Cause of Our Salvation: Soteriological Causality According to Some Modern British Theologians, 1988-1998

This dissertation offers an in depth study of the soteriologies of Colin Gunton, Paul Fiddes, Vernon White and John McIntyre and attemps to identify and evaluate their contribution to constructing an ecumenically sensitive soteriology for the twenty-first century. The book focuses on a crucial question: just how are we saved by Jesus Christ? Is the church right in claiming that salvation comes about through the suffering and death of Christ on the cross as is expressed so often in her liturgical prayers?