Grace Alone---Salvation as a Gift of God: What the Reformers Taught...and Why It Still Matters

Carl R. Trueman

Grace Alone---Salvation as a Gift of God: What the Reformers Taught...and Why It Still Matters
Format
Paperback
Publisher
Zondervan
Country
United States
Published
30 June 2017
Pages
272
ISBN
9780310515760

Grace Alone—Salvation as a Gift of God: What the Reformers Taught…and Why It Still Matters

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 theological controversy among expressions of Christianity. Reviving one of the five great declarations of the Reformation (and one of the more overlooked)-sola Gratia-professor and church historian Carl Trueman:

Provides a thorough definition of grace as it’s found in the Bible and an overview of biblical references to, and teaching on, grace. Tracks the doctrine of grace as it’s been articulated throughout church history, with discussions of Augustine, Pelagius, Thomas Aquinas, and ending with the Reformation and theologies of Luther and Calvin. Looks at the relationship between the means of grace and the modern church, defining the practical implications of the Reformation’s understanding of grace.

Explanations throughout on the relationship of grace to sin, salvation and glorification, God’s sovereignty, the sacraments, and the controversies regarding freewill and predestination. Grace Alone is a beautiful and much-needed revival of this foundational doctrine and the assurance of salvation.

-THE FIVE SOLAS-

Historians and theologians have long recognized that at the heart of the sixteenth-century Protestant Reformation were five declarations, often referred to as the solas. These five statements summarize much of what the Reformation was about, and they distinguish Protestantism from other expressions of the Christian faith: that they place ultimate and final authority in the Scriptures, acknowledge the work of Christ alone as sufficient for redemption, recognize that salvation is by grace alone through faith alone, and seek to do all things for God’s glory.

The Five Solas Series is more than a simple rehashing of these statements, but instead expounds upon the biblical reasoning behind them, leading to a more profound theological vision of our lives and callings as Christians and churches.

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