This proposal, entitled, Toward a Sankofa Soteriology: African American Women and Christian Salvation, explains the rationale and significance behind a constructive Christian soteriology that is informed by the experiences of African American women. This theology brings together two “types” of salvation: definitive salvation from God through Jesus and the Holy Spirit, and the well-being and social salvation that African American women have known through the life and witness of their foremothers. Sankofa, a West African Akan word, literally means, “Go back and fetch it.” This theology is about: fetching important values that undergird understandings of Christian salvation or redemption and fetching memories of the resistance and giftedness of African American foremothers in order to braid them together into a theology that speaks to African American women. A Sankofa Soteriology broadens understandings of Christian salvation to include the entire life and witness of Jesus Christ. This is affirmed to prevent African American women from glorifying their own suffering after glorifying the cross, because this could result in black women failing to adequately resist injustice and oppression. A soteriology that accentuates the salvific value of Jesus’ entire life can be instructive for African American women who wish to model their lives on that of their savior.