Faith and Perseverance

Forsideomslag
Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing, 1958 - 260 sider
This is a print on demand book and is therefore non- returnable.

In times when men's hearts are failing them for fear, in a period when many voices are clamoring for a hearing, the esteemed G. C. Berkouwer aptly commences his penetrating study by drawing attention to the timeliness and relevance of the doctrine of perseverance. He writes, "There is something very strange about this doctrine, something which confronts us with the problem of permanence in a unique way, because we are so conscious of our own changeableness. Our lives are subject to numberless variations and fluctuations. In the doctrine of the perseverance of the saints do we not have merely a projection of human desires, a hope which flies in the face of life's realities? Does it not grasp after something that is denied us as changeable men?"

Facing this paradoxical nature of his subject, Berkouwer shows that the perseverance of the saints is unbreakably connected with the assurance of faith and warns us against speaking of constancy without standing in faith. To separate the doctrine of perseverance from its living and existential relationship to the gospel, to Word and sacrament, to promise and demand, petrifies it into a mere play of concepts drained of all life.

The thoroughness with which Berkouwer treats the history of the discussions affecting this important subject (from the days of Tertullian and Augustine, through the Reformers, Ritschl, and Schleiermacher, down to Edmund Schlink and Karl Barth) gives this book a special value to all students of theology.

 

Indhold

TIMELINESS AND RELEVANCE
9
CONFESSIONAL RECONNAISSANCE
17
THREE CONTROVERSIES
39
PERSEVERANCE AND ADMONITION
83
PERSEVERANCE AND PRAYER
127
PERSEVERANCE AND TEMPTATION
157
THE CONSOLATION OF PERSEVERANCE
199
THE REALITY OF PERSEVERANCE
219
FOOTNOTES TO THE CHAPTERS
240
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