| Preface | ix |
| Abbreviations | xiii |
1 | Introduction: Salvation as Union | 1 |
1 | Salvation in Christianity and Other Religions | 1 |
2 | Union in Salvation-Divisions in the Church | 4 |
3 | In Search of an Ecumenical Convergence | 7 |
2 | Justification in Recent New Testament Scholarship | 10 |
3 | Deification in the Eastern Orthodox Tradition | 17 |
1 | "Partakers in Divine Nature": Theosis in the Bible | 17 |
2 | The Renewal of the Image of God and Immortality | 20 |
3 | The Eastern Fathers, Incarnation, and the Deifying Spirit | 24 |
4 | The Palamite Vision of Salvation | 27 |
5 | Theosis as the Defining Principle of the Doctrine of Salvation in Eastern Theology | 29 |
6 | Spirit and Theosis: The Pneumatological Soteriology of the East | 32 |
4 | Justification and Deification in Martin Luther's Theology | 37 |
1 | A New Paradigm of Luther Interpretation | 37 |
2 | The Theology of Love and the Theology of the Cross | 40 |
3 | Justification as the Presence of Christ and Deification | 45 |
4 | Christ as Favor and Gift: The Relationship Between Effective and Forensic Justification | 51 |
5 | The Christian as "Christ" to the Neighbor | 58 |
6 | The Pneumatological Potential of Luther's Doctrine of Salvation | 61 |
5 | Deification, Union, and Sanctification in Later Protestant Theologies | 67 |
1 | Deification in Anabaptism | 67 |
2 | Deification and Sanctification in Methodism | 72 |
3 | Union in Evangelical Theology | 81 |
6 | Salvation as Union: Towards an Ecumenical Convergence | 87 |
1 | "Salvation as Justification and Deification" in Lutheran-Orthodox Conversations | 87 |
2 | Justification and Sanctification in the Roman Catholic-Lutheran Conversations | 99 |
3 | "Beyond Salvation": Christian Transformation in the Orthodox-Pentecostal Perspective | 108 |
7 | One with God: In Search of a Consensual View of Salvation | 116 |
1 | The Conditions and Promise of Ecumenical Thinking about Salvation | 116 |
2 | Union as the Defining Motif in Eastern and Western Soteriologies | 119 |
3 | Fresh Voices from the Bible | 121 |
4 | "Be Holy as I Am Holy" | 123 |
5 | Loving in Faith | 125 |
6 | Free to Sin or Free to Become Like God? | 126 |
7 | Toward a Pneumatological Doctrine of Salvation | 129 |
8 | "Justification in the World's Context": New Tasks for Soteriology for the Third Millennium | 131 |
9 | Deification, Justification, and Other Religions | 133 |
| Index | 139 |