Grace Alone---Salvation as a Gift of God (The Five Solas)
by Carl R. Trueman
Grace is the heart of the Christian gospel. It's a doctrine that touches the very depths of human existence and makes Christianity such an essential alternative to the dissolution and nihilism of modern culture. Grace Alone guides you into a better doctrinal understanding of the issue and gives you a more glorious vision of an active and saving God. The language of grace fills the Bible so much that to say "grace alone" may not evoke much reflection. Unlike "faith alone," there's no theologica...
Reformed Orthodoxy in Scotland
Recent decades have witnessed much scholarly reassessment of late-sixteenth through eighteenth-century Reformed theology. It was common to view the theology of this period-typically labelled 'orthodoxy'-as sterile, speculative, and rationalistic, and to represent it as significantly discontinuous with the more humanistic, practical, and biblical thought of the early reformers. Recent scholars have taken a more balanced approach, examining orthodoxy on its own terms and subsequently highlighting...
The Theology of Calvin (Twin Brooks) (Library of Ecclesiastical History)
by Wilhelm Niesel
The range and sweep of John Calvinis theology have rarely been more comprehensively presented than in this book. This analysis illuminates Calvinis ideas and helps to set them into the framework of their time.
Karl Barth on Prayer (T&T Clark Studies in Systematic Theology)
by Dr Ashley Cocksworth
Ashley Cocksworth presents Karl Barth as a theologian who not only produces a strong and vibrant theology of prayer, but also grounds theology itself in the practice of prayer. Prayer and theology are revealed to be integrally related in Barth's understanding of the dogmatic task. Cocksworth provides careful analysis of a range of key texts in Barth's thought in which the theme of prayer emerges with particular interest. He analyzes: Barth's writings on the Sabbath and uncovers an unexpected th...
Treatises Against the Anabaptists and Against the Libertines
by John Calvin and Benjamin W. Farley
Calvin's tracts on the Anabaptists and the Libertines contain some of his most significant ethical and theological reflections. In Against the Anabaptists Calvin examines that group's rejection of infant baptism, its excommunication of members after the second admonition, its refusal to bear arms, and its withdrawal from politics and government. Calvin's treatise Against the Libertines incisively refutes that group's pantheistic determinism, Gnostic Christology, libertine view of Christian liber...
The Kingdom Of Heaven Taken By Prayer
by David Clarke and Wiliam Huntington S S
A History of the Congregational Church in Crediton, Devon
by Colin White
Francis Turretin (1623-87) and the Reformed Tradition (St Andrews Studies in Reformation History)
by Nicholas A. Cumming
In this biography of Reformed theologian Francis Turretin (1623-87), Nicholas A. Cumming provides critical context for the life and theology of this important seventeenth-century theologian and his impact on the Reformed tradition as a whole. Turretin has commonly been identified as a strict scholastic theologian; this work places Turretin in his broader context, analyzing his life and theology in terms of the political and religious aspects of post-Reformation Europe and his posthumous influenc...
The Personal Luther (St Andrews Studies in Reformation History, #8)
by Susan Karant-Nunn
Overwhelmingly, Martin Luther has been treated as the generator of ideas concerning the relationship between God and humankind. The Personal Luther deliberately departs from that church-historiographic tradition. Luther was a voluble and irrepressible divine. Even though he had multiple ancillary interests, such as singing, playing the lute, appreciating the complexities of nature, and observing his children, his preoccupation was, as he quickly saw it, bringing the Word of God to the people. T...
Richard Muller, a world-class scholar of the Reformation era, examines the relationship of Calvin's theology to the Reformed tradition, indicating Calvin's place in the tradition as one of several significant second-generation formulators. Muller argues that the Reformed tradition is a diverse and variegated movement not suitably described either as founded solely on the thought of John Calvin or as a reaction to or deviation from Calvin, thereby setting aside the old "Calvin and the Calvinists"...