Salvation Accomplished by the Son
Overview
In this unique and insightful work, Robert Peterson insists that we look afresh at all that the Bible teaches about who our Savior is and what he has accomplished, with the conviction that a careful examination of this teaching will lead us to adoration and worship. Peterson explains the saving work of Christ, both his deeds and the biblical pictures illustrating them, and thereby points to the magnitude of what Jesus did to save sinners. Offered here is a substantive, significant, and enduring treatise on a key Christian doctrine—the work of Christ.
Key Features
- Emphasizes the doctrine of salvation as a reason for worship
- Provides an overview of the biblical view of Jesus life and death
- Presents a comprehensive treatment of this essential Christian doctrine
Contents
- Part One: Events
- Introduction to Jesus’s Saving Events
- Christ’s Incarnation
- Christ’s Sinless Life
- Christ’s Death
- Christ’s Resurrection
- Christ’s Ascension
- Christ’s Session
- Christ’s Pentecost
- Christ’s Intercession
- Christ’s Second Coming
- Part Two: Pictures
- Introduction to the Pictures of Jesus’s Saving Events
- Christ Our Reconciler
- Christ Our Redeemer
- Christ Our Legal Substitute
- Christ Our Victor
- Christ Our Second Adam
- Christ Our Sacrifice
Top Highlights
“We saw in Acts that Peter repeatedly sets forth Jesus’s ascension as the confirmation of his messiahship. However, nowhere in Paul’s letter does an overt defense of Jesus’s messiahship appear.” (Page 167)
“Jesus received a divided response from humankind (his creatures and covenant people Israel). Most ‘did not know him’ and ‘did not receive him’ (John 1:10, 11). ‘But to all who did receive him, who believed in his name, he gave the right to become children of God’ (v. 12). Even as we use words to reveal our inmost thoughts, so God used the Word, his unique Son, to reveal his mind as well (v. 18). The Word came as the Savior, and all who believed in him were freed from their bondage to sin (8:34, 36) and adopted into the family of God. The incarnate Word is the God-man who ‘from his divine fullness’ gives ‘grace upon grace’ to needy sinners (1:16).” (Page 32)
“The Mediator had unique qualifications. He had to be both God and man to save us sinners. He had to be God because only God could save us. He had to become man because the work of salvation had to be performed by a human being for human beings.” (Page 27)
“his resurrection as God’s just verdict, which reverses the sinful judgment of man:” (Page 83)
“The fullness of salvation arrives. The people of God were always saved by grace through faith. Before the cross, God provided forgiveness based upon the work of Christ to come. And God circumcised the hearts of believing Israelites by his Spirit (Deut. 10:16; 30:6; Jer. 4:4; Acts 7:51; Rom. 2:28–29). So, Jesus’s death and resurrection did not bring salvation for the first time. Instead, his achievement was so great as to be the basis for salvation at any time in redemptive history. Similarly, Pentecost does not represent the beginning of the Holy Spirit’s work in the world. Instead, it represents the work of salvation in a grander and fuller way than previously. This is true because the risen, exalted Christ sends the Spirit as his Spirit, the Spirit of Christ.” (Pages 223–224)
Praise for the Print Edition
Peterson conducts a full-orbed tour of Christology, particularly highlighting the often neglected role of Christ's resurrection in our salvation. Peterson writes with a pastor’s heart, as is evident in the biblical fidelity and remarkable clarity that marks this work.
—Thomas R. Schreiner, James Buchanan Harrison Professor of New Testament Interpretation, The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary
Robert Peterson has produced a comprehensive study of Christ’s saving work that puts the cross at the center, but also shows how it is part of a wider plan. He shows how the atonement must be seen in the context of Christ’s whole life and ministry without compromising the essential truth of his penal substitutionary sacrifice for us. This is a refreshing and insightful study, which is much needed at the present time and deserves to be widely read.
—Gerald Bray, research professor of Divinity, History, and Doctrine, Beeson Divinity School and author of God Is Love and God Has Spoken
Dr. Peterson told me in correspondence, ‘my work is not [systematic theology] as much as laying biblical foundations for systematics.’ Well, people can define terms as they like. But I think Salvation Accomplished by the Son is systematic theology at its very best. It deals with doctrines of systematic theology by bringing them into closest proximity with the biblical texts that justify them. That is the kind of systematics of which we need much more. To explore any question about Jesus’s incarnation, atonement, or resurrection, this is the book to which, after Scripture itself, I would turn first.
—John M. Frame, professor of Systematic Theology and Philosophy Emeritus, Reformed Theological Seminary, Orlando
Product Details
- Title: Salvation Accomplished by the Son
- Author: Robert A. Peterson
- Publisher: Crossway
- Publication Date: 2011
- Pages: 624
- Christian Group: Evangelical
- Resource Type: Monograph
- Topic: Theology
