Jon Sobrino's concept of martyrdom is rooted in the immediate experience of war and oppression. Particularly in his later writings, he frames the entire soteriology around one sign: the victims of the massacres of his oppressed people. Theresa Denger, following the Salvadoran theologian, demonstrates that it is not credible to speak about God and salvation without acknowledging the victims. She examines how the Christian faith confesses martyrdom as the quintessential Christian death and as redemptive. Through this cruel reality of the victims, salvation becomes concrete and political. Denger's study thus powerfully counters an abstract and comforting doctrine of salvation by drawing on the courageous and pioneering thoughts of Jon Sobrino.