Order from a Major Online Bookstore
Ultimate Book Price Comparison Engine
Save Your Time And Money
| AnyBook4Less.com | Order from a Major Online Bookstore |
|
| Home | Store List | FAQ | Contact Us | | ||
| Ultimate Book Price Comparison Engine Save Your Time And Money |
||
 |
Title: Justification by Faith Alone by R. C. Sproul, Joel R. Beeke, John H. Gerstner, Don Kistler, John F. MacArthur ISBN: 1-57358-155-0 Publisher: Soli Deo Gloria Pubns Pub. Date: September, 2003 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.5 (2 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Excellent Work From America's Greatest Theologian
Comment: Jonathan Edwards is best remembered for his role in the first Great Awakening in the United States and being Yale University's first president but he is also probably the greatest theologian America has ever produced. His heart and his passion were in preaching the word of God and secondly in teaching it. This book does a bit of both.
I greatly appreciated Edward's desire to exegete major passages of Scripture dealing with justification. While Edwards does a good job in presenting strong biblical arguments for justification by faith alone he also provides a great deal of warning to those who desire to live a life of sin and indifference. He offers sinners the grace of God and he offers Christians the holiness of God.
This book is worth the purchase. If you have not read or studied the works of Jonathan Edwards, I would encourage you to begin here. His knowledge of the Bible was incrediable but his heart is best shown in this book that deals with a doctrine he faithfully preached and loved.
Rating: 4
Summary: Hard Thinking about a Hard Topic
Comment: This was originally published, along with four other sermons, under the title "Five Discourses on Important Subjects Nearly Concerning the Great Affair of the Soul's Eternal Salvation." All five sermons are now published in Volume 1 of the Banner of Truth edition of Edwards' Works (see my review), as well as in this Soli Deo Gloria reprint.
Having now read several theologians' writings on the difficult doctrine of justification (Berkhof, Gill, Murray, Grudem, and now Edwards), it would be fairly safe to say that Edwards is at once the most difficult of them all, and the most astute (with John Murray perhaps excepted as being more helpful).
The great Northhampton preacher refused to be evasive in answering difficult questions about the role of faith in justification. While strongly defending justification by faith alone apart from works, he avoids both legalism and antinomianism. The sermon is structured well,though laden with some very complex reasoning and it is thoroughly Scriptural and evangelical. But be prepared to think!
For a synopsis, Edwards' "doctrine" is that "we are justified only by faith in Christ, and not by any manner of virtue or goodness of our own." This truth he unfolds by I. Explaining the meaning of it; II. Considering the evidence of the truth of it; III. Showing how evangelical obedience is concerned in it (a most helpful section); IV. Answering objections; and V. Considering the importance of it. I would encourage readers to read ALL of this book before forming ANY opinions about it. You need to follow Edwards reasoning all the way through to the end and let him deal with the most likely objections you will have(and which he anticipates!).
One of the most valuable quotations of all is this: "God, in the act of justification, which is passed on a sinner's first believing, has respect to perseverance, as being virtually contained in the first act of faith; and it is looked upon, and taken by him that justifies, as being as it were a property in that faith." Or, to paraphrase John Piper "God sees the oak tree of perseverance in the acorn of the first act of saving faith." That insight alone is worth the price of the whole book - but of course, there is much, much more gold to mine in Edwards, and in this sermon in especially.
 |
Title: The Freedom of the Will by Jonathan Edwards ISBN: 1573580333 Publisher: Soli Deo Gloria Pubns Pub. Date: June, 2003 List Price(USD): $27.95 |
 |
Title: Sola Scriptura: The Protestant Position on the Bible by Don Kistler ISBN: 1573580287 Publisher: Soli Deo Gloria Pubns Pub. Date: June, 2003 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
 |
Title: The Bondage of the Will by Martin Luther, J. I. Packer, O. R. Johnston ISBN: 0800753429 Publisher: Fleming H Revell Co Pub. Date: April, 1990 List Price(USD): $16.99 |
 |
Title: Religious Affections by Jonathan Edwards ISBN: 0851514855 Publisher: Banner of Truth Pub. Date: October, 1986 List Price(USD): $14.99 |
 |
Title: Forgotten Spurgeon by Iain Hamish Murray ISBN: 0851511562 Publisher: Banner of Truth Pub. Date: June, 1988 List Price(USD): $9.99 |
Thank you for visiting www.AnyBook4Less.com and enjoy your savings!
Copyright� 2001-2021 Send your comments
