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Article: Who Can Be Saved? Reassessing Salvation in Christ and World Religions.(Book review)
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- Theological Studies
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- June 1, 2006
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WHO CAN BE SAVED? REASSESSING SALVATION IN CHRIST AND WORLD RELIGIONS. By Terrance L. Tiessen. Downers Grove, Ill.: InterVarsity, 2004. Pp. 511. $27.
Inclusivism may presently claim the default position in Catholic theologies of religion, but things stand quite otherwise among Evangelical Christians whose strong sense of human depravity and firm insistence on the need for personal surrender to Christ incline them to an ecclesiocentric stance. Such was the posture that Terrance L. Tiessen--a professor of theology and ethics at Manitoba's Providence Theological Seminary--found challenged when he concluded an investigation of Irenaeus on the Salvation of the ...