Saving Salvation

Abstract

Evangelicalism was birthed in a revivalism which celebrated salvation as available only through faith in Christ. Some Evangelicals now propose a “wider hope,” arguing that explicit faith in Christ is not necessary for salvation. This article posits that this “wider hope” must be understood and resisted, because it guts Evangelicalism of its very heart, strips it of its central contribution to the world, badly distorts Scripture, and misunderstands the Roman Catholicism to which it looks for support.