Liberation as Salvation: A Johannine Interpretation
Keywords:
Man's self discovery, The Need of a Saviour, Salvation as Knowledge of God and of Jesus Christ, Salvation is also a Victory over the World, Salvation consists in a 'Kenotic' Transformation, Salvation is the Intimate Union with the Triune God, Salvation is the Liberation from Death, Salvation is the attainment of the New Life of Grace, Salvation is a Liberation from SatanAbstract
A man like St. John with profound divine experience has a interpretation of his own concerning human salvation. In each and every word of his writings one can detect the pulsation of a life lived in full conviction and a sense of fulfilment supported by a strong faith in a divine person who confronted him in the prime of his life and followed him until he breathed his last as an old sage at Ephesus.
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