Antinomianism: Reformed Theology's Unwelcome Guest?

an.ti.no.mi.an (noun)-One who holds that under the gospel dispensation of grace the moral law is of no use or obligation because faith alone is necessary to salvation. -Merriam-Webster's dictionary

Hotly debated since the sixteenth century in the Reformed theological tradition, and still a burning issue today, antinomianism has a long and complicated story.

This book is the first to examine antinomianism from a historical, exegetical, and systematic perspective. More than that, in it Mark Jones offers a key - a robust Reformed Christology with a strong emphasis on the Holy Spirit - and chapter by chapter uses it to unlock nine questions raised by the debates.

"The problem of antinomianism is a hardy perennial for the church. There is a mischievous movement afoot at the moment whose soaring rhetoric about grace is matched by an equally casual presumption on the same. Mark Jones's book is thus to be welcomed: it is biblically grounded, historically sensitive, and above all timely."
-Carl R. Trueman, Paul Woolley Professor of Church History, Westminster Theological Seminary, PA; Pastor of Cornerstone Presbyterian Church (OPC) Ambler, PA

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an ti no mi an noun [an-ti- n -m - n] One who holds that under the gospel dispensation of grace the moral law is of no use or obligation because faith alone is necessary to salvation. Merriam-Webster's dictionary Hotly debated since the sixteenth century in the Reformed theological tradition, and still a burning issue today, antinomianism has a long and complicated story. This book is the first to examine antinomianism from a historical, exegetical, and systematic perspective. More than that, in it Mark Jones offers a key a robust Reformed Christology with a strong emphasis on the Holy Spirit and chapter by chapter uses it to unlock nine questions raised by the debates.