Foreword by Leonard Sweet
Foreword by Todd Hunter
Author?s Preface
Acknowledgments
1 Introduction: The Postmodern Challenge
2 A New Heart: A Personal Covenant Narrative
3 Understanding Divine Expectations
4 The Old Testament and Divine Expectations
5 The Divine Expectations in the Old Testament Feasts and
Sacrifices
6 Divine Expectations in the New Testament
7 Key New Testament Atonement Elements
8 Divine Expectations in Christian History
9 A Historical Survey of Atonement Theories: Three Classic
Theories
10 A Historical Survey of Atonement Theories: Three Forensic
Theories
11 A Historical Survey of Atonement Theories: Moral Influence and
Other Theories
12 Divine Expectations in Christian History: Covenant Interpersonal
Perspectives
Notes
Index
R. Larry Shelton (Th.D., Fuller Theological Seminary) is Richard B.
Parker Professor of Wesleyan Theology at George Fox Evangelical
Seminary in Portland. He has taught theology throughout the United
States and Asia and served on the pastoral staff of three
churches.The author of numerous articles and book reviews, Shelton
is the coeditor of the five-volume Wesleyan Theological
Perspectives Series.
Leonard Sweet is the E. Stanley Jones Professor of Evangelism at
Drew University in Madison, NJ and a visiting distinguished
professor at George Fox University in Portland, Oregon. Previously
Sweet served as vice president of acadmic affairs and dean of the
Theological School at Drew University. Sweet is the author of many
books, including Soul Tsunami and AquaChurch
Bishop Todd D. Hunter (DMin, George Fox University) leads the
church-planting initiative Churches for the Sake of Others (C4SO),
a diocese of the Anglican Church in North America. He is the
founding pastor of Holy Trinity Church in Costa Mesa, California
and is the author of several books, including Christianity Beyond
Belief, Giving Church A Second Chance, The Accidental Anglican, and
Our Favorite Sins. He is also a teacher, writer, and consultant for
his ministry, Society for Kingdom Living, which helps pastors and
lay leaders reach a generation that has been disenfranchised from
the church.
Formerly national director at Vineyard Churches USA and then at
Alpha USA, Hunter serves on the board of directors and executive
committee of Alpha as well as on a number of other ministry boards,
including Renovaré and Soul Survivor. He is an adjunct professor of
evangelism and contemporary culture at George Fox University,
Fuller Seminary, Western Seminary, Vanguard University, and Wheaton
College, and has two adult children with his wife, Debbie.
"Here is a 'must read' for evangelist-theologians, a fresh sketch
of Christ's atonement as an act of covenant love."--Kent L. Yinger,
George Fox Evangelical Seminary
"This is important work, and we are indebted to Shelton for his
theological clarity, his scholarly breadth, his sensitivity to the
contemporary debate on the atonement, and his
mission-mindedness."--Joel B. Green, Asbury Theological Seminary
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