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Jeremiah 29:11 : rightly applying an Old Testament "salvation" text / Jamie Viands -- Concepts of repentance and sanctification in African perspectives : an assessment of biblical and African understandings of salvation in African Christianity / Daniel M. Mwailu -- Salvation prosperity or poverty? An assessment of African Pentecostal Christianity / Mica Onserio Moenga -- "Jesus is my personal savior" : engaging evangelical themes of individual salvation in African communal contexts / Kyama Mugambi -- Household conversions in Acts and their significance for house-to-house evangelism in Africa / Isaac Ampong -- A Pauline theology of justification and its implications for ecclesiology in Kenya amid ethnic divisions : an exegesis of Galatians 2:11-21 / Danson Ottawa Wafula and Edwin Mwangi Macharia -- Past, present, and future : Paul's view of salvation in the Thessalonian correspondence / Gift Mtukwa -- How can women be saved? A reinterpretation of 1 Timothy 2:15 within a Nigerian context / Moses Iliya Ogidis -- Understanding the soteriological conceptualization of the early church fathers : an exploration of the legacy of Athanasius and its relevance to African Christianity / Henry Marcus Garba -- The sacrifice of Christ in African perspective : a contribution to the atonement debate / Samuel K. Bussey -- Critical analysis of the doctrine of adoption through the honor and shame paradigm : an African perspective / Kenosi Molato -- A balanced approach to understanding the concept of salvation in contemporary African Christianity / Joseph Mavulu -- An exploration of understanding seven dimensions of salvation in African Christianity / David K. Ngaruiya -- Holism in salvation / Philemon Ongole -- The logical implications of trinitarian exclusivism / Joseph B. Onyango Okello -- Emerging soteriological issues in African Christianity in the light of resurgent African cultures : the practice of ancestral debts / Kamau Thairu -- Finding new "alphabets" for proclaiming salvific faith in Africa / Julius Kithinji and Pauline K. Mwaura -- Salvation and the problem of negative ethnicity and schism in the church in Kenya : toward an Ubuntu salvation theology / Rev. Jackline Makena Mutuma, Rev. Dr. John M. Kiboi -- An all-embracing, contextual, challenging, now and not yet salvation for Ugandan rural communities / Timothy J. Monger -- An exploration of Pentecostal theology and praxis of salvation in Kenya / Kevin Muriithi Ndereba.

"What must I do to be saved?" That question, raised in the book of Acts by the Philippian jailer, is a question for the ages. Yet what, even, does it mean to be saved? Is salvation for this life or the next? Is it purely spiritual or does it have physical and material implications? Can salvation be lost? Do we determine who will be saved or does God? What role does Christ play in salvation? Such are the seemingly unending questions soteriology strives to answer. In this eighth volume from the Africa Society of Evangelical Theology, African theologians articulate their understanding of salvation - and its widespread implications for life and practice - in conversation with Scripture and the rich diversity of an African cultural context. Salvation is examined from historical, philosophical, and theological lenses, and scholars address topics as wide-ranging as conversion, ethnicity, fertility, poverty, prosperity, the Trinity, exclusivism, African Pentecostalism, rural community, eschatology, wholeness, and atonement. It is a powerful exploration of the holistic nature of salvation as articulated in Scripture and understood by the African church.