The Cross and Salvation is Bruce Demarest's comprehensive treatment of the doctrine of salvation. He works through the human condition and sin, the atonement and the theories offered to explain it, the extent of redemption, election and calling, regeneration, conversion and faith, justification, adoption, sanctification, perseverance and glorification, engaging the historical formulations and the contemporary debates at each point.

Part of the Foundations of Evangelical Theology series, the volume is written for pastors, seminary students and serious readers who want one substantial work on soteriology rather than a chapter in a systematic theology. Demarest writes as an evangelical and documents the alternatives fully enough that the book doubles as a survey of the field.