Does God command all sinners to repent and believe? Does God desire the salvation of all sinners? Yes, says the Bible, yes to both questions. But many who love the doctrines of grace are confused. They think God's absolute sovereignty in election, Christ's particular redemption of the elect, and the Holy Spirit's specific application of that redemption to the elect, conflicts with the "free off…
"~The work of a lifetime, from one of the world's most influential thinkers, about the heart of the Christian faith. ""I could never myself believe in God, if it were not for the cross. . . . In the real world of pain, how could one worship a God who was immune to it?"" With compelling honesty John Stott confronts this generation with the centrality of the cross in God's redemption of the world…
The Holy Spirit, once forgotten, has been "rediscovered" in the twentieth century—or has he? Sinclair Ferguson believes we should rephrase this common assertion: "While his work has been recognized, the Spirit himself remains to many Christians an anonymous, faceless aspect of the divine being." In order to redress this balance, Ferguson seeks to recover the who of the Spirit fully as much as…
WOLFHART PANNENBERG is widely regarded as one of the foremost theologians in the world today. The publication of this book advances Pannenberg's masterly three-volume Systematic Theology - a work that will surely come to stand as one of the grand and lasting theological statements of the twentieth century. Moving beyond his commanding discussions of epistemology and theology proper in Volume…
Defending the faith can be daunting, and a well-reasoned and biblically grounded apologetic is essential for the challenge. Following in the footsteps of groundbreaking apologist Cornelius Van Til, Scott Oliphint presents us with an introduction to Reformed apologetics as he sets forth the principles behind a distinctly ?covenantal? approach. This book clearly explains the theological foundatio…
A long-awaited major statement by pre-eminent analytic philosopher Alvin Plantinga, "Where the Conflict Really Lies" illuminates one of our society's biggest debates - the conflict between science and religion. Plantinga examines where this conflict is said to exist - looking at areas such as evolution, divine action in the world, and the scientific study of religion. He makes a case that their…
Martin Luther contended that the church stands or falls on the doctrine of justification. With challenges to the Reformer's view coming from several directions today, R. C. Sproul finds the appearance of Francis Turretin's Justification "a welcome relief." Is the ground of our justification "the righteousness of Christ in us or the righteousness of Christ for us?" In the introduction, Sproul fi…
Do you have significant doubts about God? Are you afraid to doubt, much less admit to anyone that you aren't fully convinced of God's faithfulness? Are you so torn by your questions that life is losing its meaning? This forthright but compassionate book works to tear away the layers of misunderstanding about doubt to reveal not only its dangers but its great value. As author Os Guinness expl…
"~Do you have an opinion? There is an increasing tendency in Evangelical circles to regard disagreement in our allegedly post-modern world as inherently oppressive. Too many people sit on the fence and ignore, or are unaware of, the fact that Christianity is an historical religion. As Laurence Peter once said ""History repeats itself because nobody listens."" The point of having a debate is not…
In what remains a widely discussed issue in contemporary theology, J. Gresham Machen's The Virgin Birth of Christ acts as both an introduction to the subject, and a window into American 'Princeton' theology in the early twentieth century. Machen undertakes an encyclopedic study of the different perspectives on the virgin birth. He begins with a close reading of the scriptural accounts, comparin…