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Just so everyone knows, I did the major change on this entery today for these reasons:
- it seemed to filled with jargon. It made sense to me, someone who was raised in conservative protestant Christianity, but would a Hindu in New Delhi have understood what was written? I don't think so. I tried to use language that would be familiar to any English speaker with a reasonable education.
- the article I changed only explained one view of salvation. I tried to show that there are different views of salvation arising out of the NT and to give a brief description of a very popular protestant understanding of salvation, the Calvinist view.
I think several more things are necessary for the article on salvation:
1. an expansion/fleshing out of Calvinist thought, including a discussion of arius and the calvinist response. (because this is one of two major theories in American protestantism)
2. a subsection on Wessleyan soteriology (because this is the other major thoery in American Protestantism)
3. a subsection on original sin that discusses the impact of St. Augustine's innovation of A.D. 395
4. a subsection on St.Alselm of Canterbury's theory and the development of western soteriology since then.
5. a section dealing with various theories of salvation with subsections dealing with the ransom theory, the satisfaction theory, the mercantiist theory, the Christos Victor theory, etc.
6. a section dealing with soteriology of Roman Catholicism (because it is the largest church)(this might fit in under thediscussions of St. Augustine and St. Anselm)
7. a section dealing with the soteriology of the Orthodox Church (because it is the second largest church)
- it seemed to filled with jargon. It made sense to me, someone who was raised in conservative protestant Christianity, but would a Hindu in New Delhi have understood what was written? I don't think so. I tried to use language that would be familiar to any English speaker with a reasonable education.
- the article I changed only explained one view of salvation. I tried to show that there are different views of salvation arising out of the NT and to give a brief description of a very popular protestant understanding of salvation, the Calvinist view.
I think several more things are necessary for the article on salvation:
1. an expansion/fleshing out of Calvinist thought, including a discussion of arius and the calvinist response. (because this is one of two major theories in American protestantism)
2. a subsection on Wessleyan soteriology (because this is the other major thoery in American Protestantism)
3. a subsection on original sin that discusses the impact of St. Augustine's innovation of A.D. 395
4. a subsection on St.Alselm of Canterbury's theory and the development of western soteriology since then.
5. a section dealing with various theories of salvation with subsections dealing with the ransom theory, the satisfaction theory, the mercantiist theory, the Christos Victor theory, etc.
6. a section dealing with soteriology of Roman Catholicism (because it is the largest church)(this might fit in under thediscussions of St. Augustine and St. Anselm)
7. a section dealing with the soteriology of the Orthodox Church (because it is the second largest church)