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Founder of Ligonier Ministries and author of more than ninety books introduces readers to the distinctives of Reformed theology in this timeless and valuable resource.

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1997 by R. C. Sproul

Published by Baker Books

a division of Baker Publishing Group

P.O. Box 6287, Grand Rapids, MI 49516-6287

www.bakerbooks.com

Repackaged edition published 2016

Ebook edition created 2016

All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any meansfor example, electronic, photocopy, recordingwithout the prior written permission of the publisher. The only exception is brief quotations in printed reviews.

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data is on file at the Library of Congress, Washington, DC.

ISBN 978-1-58558-652-3

Scripture quotations are from the New King James Version. Copyright 1982 by Thomas Nelson, Inc. Used by permission. All rights reserved.

The proprietor is represented by the literary agency of Wolgemuth & Associates, Inc.

Dedication

In memory of
James Montgomery Boice

Contents

Cover

Title Page

Copyright Page

Dedication

Illustrations

Introduction: Reformed Theology Is a Theology

Part 1: Foundations of Reformed Theology

1. Centered on God

2. Based on Gods Word Alone

3. Committed to Faith Alone

4. Devoted to the Prophet, Priest, and King

5. Nicknamed Covenant Theology

Part 2: Five Points of Reformed Theology

6. Humanitys Radical Corruption

7. Gods Sovereign Choice

8. Christs Purposeful Atonement

10. Gods Preservation of the Saints

Notes

Glossary of Foreign Terms

Index of Subjects

Index of Persons

Index of Scripture

About the Author

Among Other Books by the Author

Back Ads

Back Cover

Illustrations

Figures

0.1 God-Centered View of Theology

0.2 Man-Centered View of Theology

7.1 The Golden Chain of Salvation

Tables

1.1 The First Foundation Stone

2.1 The Second Foundation Stone

2.2 The Canon

3.1 The Third Foundation Stone

3.2 Justification

4.1 The Fourth Foundation Stone

4.2 Christological Councils

5.1 The Fifth Foundation Stone

5.2 The Structure of Ancient Covenants

6.1 The T U LIP s First Petal

6.2 Augustine on Human Ability

7.1 The T ULIP s Second Petal

7.2 Predestination of the Elect (PE) and of the Reprobate (PR)

8.1 The T ULIP s Third Petal

8.2 The Will of God

9.1 The T ULIP s Fourth Petal

10.1 The T ULIP s Fifth Petal

Part 1
Foundations of Reformed Theology
Part 2
Five Points of Reformed Theology
Notes

Introduction: Reformed Theology Is a Theology

. Adolf Harnack, What Is Christianity? , trans. Thomas Bailey Saunders (1901; reprint, New York: Harper & Row, 1957).

. David F. Wells, No Place for Truth: or, Whatever Happened to Evangelical Theology? (Grand Rapids, Mich.: Eerdmans, 1993), 95.

. Ibid., 97. See Ian T. Ramsey, Models for Divine Activity (London: SCM , 1973), 1.

. Wells, No Place for Truth , 98.

Chapter 1 Centered on God

. Martin Luther, What Luther Says: An Anthology , ed. Ewald M. Plass, 3 vols. (St. Louis: Concordia, 1959), 2:551.

. John Calvin, Institutes of the Christian Religion , 2 vols., trans. Henry Beveridge (1845; reprint, Grand Rapids, Mich.: Eerdmans, 1964), 1:51 (1.5.1).

. Ibid.

. Ibid., 1:37 (1.1.1).

. Ibid., 1:3839 (1.1.2).

. The Westminster Confession of Faith , 2.2.

. Calvin, Institutes of the Christian Religion , 1:39 (1.1.3).

. Ibid., 1:5960 (1.5.1112).

Chapter 2 Based on Gods Word Alone

. John Calvin, Institutes of the Christian Religion , 2 vols., trans. Henry Beveridge (1845; reprint, Grand Rapids, Mich.: Eerdmans, 1964), 1:68 (1.7.1).

. Martin Luther, What Luther Says: An Anthology , ed. Ewald M. Plass, 3 vols. (St. Louis: Concordia, 1959), 1:62.

. Ibid., 1:63.

. Ibid., 1:67.

. Ibid., 1:68.

. Ibid., 1:72.

. Ibid., 1:87.

. Ibid., 1:88.

. Calvin, Institutes of the Christian Religion , 1:6869 (1.7.1).

. Ibid., 1:69 (1.7.2).

. Luther, What Luther Says , 1:87.

. Ibid.

. Ibid., 1:93.

. Ibid., 1:9192.

Chapter 3 Committed to Faith Alone

. Martin Luther, What Luther Says: An Anthology , ed. Ewald M. Plass, 3 vols. (St. Louis: Concordia, 1959), 2:704 n. 5.

. Ibid., 2:704.

. Ibid., 2:703.

. John Calvin, Institutes of the Christian Religion , 2 vols., trans. Henry Beveridge (1845; reprint, Grand Rapids, Mich.: Eerdmans, 1964), 2:3738 (3.11.2).

. Luther, What Luther Says , 2:921.

. Ibid., 2:710.

. Calvin, Institutes of the Christian Religion , 2:115 (3.17.12).

. Ibid., 2:57 (3.11.21).

. Luther, What Luther Says , 1:522.

. Ibid., 2:71415.

Chapter 4 Devoted to the Prophet, Priest, and King

. The Westminster Confession of Faith , 8.1.

Chapter 5 Nicknamed Covenant Theology

. C. I. Scofield, ed., Scofield Reference Bible (New York: Oxford University, 1909).

. George E. Mendenhall, Law and Covenant in Israel and the Ancient Near East (Pittsburgh: Biblical Colloquium, 1955).

. Meredith G. Kline, Treaty of the Great King: The Covenant Structure of Deuteronomy: Studies and Commentary (Grand Rapids, Mich.: Eerdmans, 1963); By Oath Consigned: A Reinterpretation of the Covenant Signs of Circumcision and Baptism (Grand Rapids, Mich.: Eerdmans, 1968).

. The Westminster Confession of Faith , 22.12.

. Ibid., 7.2.

. Ibid., 7.3. Emphasis added.

. Ibid., 7.56.

Chapter 6 Humanitys Radical Corruption

. Adolf Harnack, History of Dogma , trans. James Millar (1898; reprint, New York: Dover, 1961), 16869. From Augustine, On the Gift of Perseverance (AD 428), 53.

. John Calvin, Institutes of the Christian Religion , 2 vols., trans. Henry Beveridge (1845; reprint, Grand Rapids, Mich.: Eerdmans, 1964), 1:214 (2.1.5).

. Martin Luther, What Luther Says: An Anthology , ed. Ewald M. Plass, 3 vols. (St. Louis: Concordia, 1959), 3:13001301.

. The Westminster Confession of Faith , 9.3.

. Calvin, Institutes of the Christian Religion , 1:22829 (2.2.67).

. The Westminster Confession , 9.45.

Chapter 7 Gods Sovereign Choice

. The Westminster Confession of Faith , 3.35. The word predestined is predestinated in the original.

. Albrecht Oepke, Elk , in Gerhard Kittel, ed., Theological Dictionary of the New Testament , ed. and trans. Geoffrey W. Bromiley, vol. 2 (Grand Rapids, Mich.: Eerdmans, 1964), 503.

. John Calvin, A Treatise on the Eternal Predestination of God , trans. Henry Cole, in Calvins Calvinism (Grand Rapids, Mich.: Eerdmans, 1950), 31.

. John Calvin, Institutes of the Christian Religion , 2 vols., trans. Henry Beveridge (1845; reprint, Grand Rapids, Mich.: Eerdmans, 1964), 2:212 (3.22.1).

Chapter 8 Christs Purposeful Atonement

. J. I. Packer, Introductory Essay, in John Owen, The Death of Death in the Death of Christ: A Treatise in Which the Whole Controversy about Universal Redemption Is Fully Discussed (1852; reprint, London: Banner of Truth, 1959), 4.

. Ibid.

. Owen, The Death of Death in the Death of Christ , 161.

. Ibid., 236.

. The Westminster Confession of Faith , 3.1.

. Ibid.

. Owen, The Death of Death in the Death of Christ , 45.

Chapter 9 The Spirits Effective Call

. J. I. Packer and O. R. Johnston, Historical and Theological Introduction, in Martin Luther, The Bondage of the Will , trans. J. I. Packer and O. R. Johnston (Cambridge: James Clarke / Westwood, N.J.: Revell, 1957), 5758.

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