The Reformed Doctrine of Predestination

One of the most thorough and convincing statements on predestination to have appeared in any language, The Reformed Doctrine of Predestination has been regarded as the authoritative work in this field.

Table of Contents:
1. Introduction
Section I
   2. Statement of the Doctrine
   3. God Has a Plan
   4. The Sovereignty of God
   5. The Providence of God
   6. The Foreknowledge of God
   7. Outline of Systems
   8. The Scriptures are the Final Authority by Which Systems are to be Judged
   9. A Warning Against Undue Speculation
Section II: The Five Points of Calvinism
   10. Total Inability
   11. Unconditional Election
   12. Limited Atonement
   13. Efficacious Grace
   14. The Perseverance of the Saints
Section III: Objections Commonly Urged Against the Reformed Doctrine of Predestination
   15. That It is Fatalism
   16. That It is Inconsistent with the Free Agency and Moral Responsibility of Man
   17. That It Makes God the Author of Sin
   18. That It Discourages All Motives to Exertion
   19. That It Represents God As a Respecter of Persons, or as Unjustly Partial
   20. That It Is Unfavorable to Good Morality
   21. That is Precludes a Sincere Offer of the Gospel to the Non-Elect
   22. That It Contradicts the Universalistic Scripture Passages Section IV
   23. Salvation By Grace
   24. Personal Assurance That One is Among the Elect
   25. Predestination in the Physical World
   26. A Comparison With the Mohammedan Doctrine of Predestination
Section V
   27. The Practical Importance of the Doctrine
   28. Calvinism in History

Author:

Loraine Boettner (ThB and ThM, Princeton Theological Seminary; also received honorary degrees in DD and LittD) is best known as the author of The Reformed Doctrine of Predestination, The Millennium, and Roman Catholicism.

Endorsements:

"Not only a clear and cogent presentation of the Reformed Doctrine of Predestination but of all the great distinctive doctrines of the Reformed Faith...The practical importance of Calvinism is stressed. The chapter on Calvinism in History will prove illuminating to many."
--Christianity Today

"A book that will live for years as one of the most scholarly, helpful and interesting discussions of a difficult subject."
--The Sunday School Times

"The mantle of Dr. Warfield, Calvinism's most distinguished expositor and defender of the last generation, seems to have fallen on Dr. Boettner's shoulders."
--The Expositor

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