What is the meaning of salvation in The Salvation Army today? - Davies-Kildea, Jason
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The Salvation Army, through a multitude of social services right across the world, is involved daily in saving people from the devastating impacts of poverty, homelessness, addictions, unemployment and a wide range of other predicaments. However, the dominant internal rhetoric about salvation would appear to suggest that theologically these efforts are at best secondary to an evangelical mission of conversion. What good is it to save people's bodies if their souls are damned to hell? A critical task of this study will be to explore theological notions of salvation which encourage a holistic…mehr

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Produktbeschreibung
The Salvation Army, through a multitude of social services right across the world, is involved daily in saving people from the devastating impacts of poverty, homelessness, addictions, unemployment and a wide range of other predicaments. However, the dominant internal rhetoric about salvation would appear to suggest that theologically these efforts are at best secondary to an evangelical mission of conversion. What good is it to save people's bodies if their souls are damned to hell? A critical task of this study will be to explore theological notions of salvation which encourage a holistic view of mission, with the potential for reuniting the social and evangelical purposes of The Salvation Army. It will be demonstrated that this broader view of salvation reflects the early history of The Salvation Army, has a solid scriptural basis and also fits within a number of other contemporary theological frameworks which are based in the life experience of the poor and oppressed.
Autorenporträt
Captain Jason Davies-Kildea is a Salvation Army officer living in Melbourne, Australia. Just over 20 years ago, Jason started working in Salvation Army social services and studying theology. He has been seeking to understand and articulate the connection between these two activities ever since. In 2006 he was awarded a Churchill Fellowship.