**How Might We Obtain Everlasting Life?**Although Protestants ought to have a ready answer about faith in Jesus Christ, the reasons explaining that answer run much deeper and relate to our status as God’s image bearers.Important historical issues inform how we understand the precise relationship of work and grace. Throughout much...
**How Might We Obtain Everlasting Life?**
Although Protestants ought to have a ready answer about faith in Jesus Christ, the reasons explaining that answer run much deeper and relate to our status as God’s image bearers.
Important historical issues inform how we understand the precise relationship of work and grace. Throughout much of the medieval period and into modern Roman Catholicism, many believed that because original righteousness was _superadded_ to our nature, personal righteousness could be restored by grace after the fall, allowing us to merit everlasting life by our own works. By contrast, the Reformation tradition has held that sin has damaged our nature so thoroughly that we could never merit salvation and must receive everlasting life by grace alone.
_Righteous by Design_ is, on one hand, a thorough historical investigation of medieval and counter–Reformation theology, exploring sources that have seldomly if at all been treated in Reformed literature. At the same time, it is also a theological case that original righteousness was _natural_ to Adam before the Fall and that _Adam_ could have merited everlasting life according to the covenant of works. The payoff of this effort in theological retrieval is to underscore the majesty of grace in that sinners are right with God only on the basis of _Christ’s_ merits. Thus, this book mounts a case for the Protestant law–gospel distinction through the lens of the _imago Dei_ to highlight the sufficiency of Christ and his work.
**How Might We Obtain Everlasting Life?**Although Protestants ought to have a ready answer about faith in Jesus Christ, the reasons explaining that answer run much deeper and relate to our status as God’s image bearers.Important historical issues inform how we understand the precise relationship of work and grace. Throughout much...
**How Might We Obtain Everlasting Life?**
Although Protestants ought to have a ready answer about faith in Jesus Christ, the reasons explaining that answer run much deeper and relate to our status as God’s image bearers.
Important historical issues inform how we understand the precise relationship of work and grace. Throughout much of the medieval period and into modern Roman Catholicism, many believed that because original righteousness was _superadded_ to our nature, personal righteousness could be restored by grace after the fall, allowing us to merit everlasting life by our own works. By contrast, the Reformation tradition has held that sin has damaged our nature so thoroughly that we could never merit salvation and must receive everlasting life by grace alone.
_Righteous by Design_ is, on one hand, a thorough historical investigation of medieval and counter–Reformation theology, exploring sources that have seldomly if at all been treated in Reformed literature. At the same time, it is also a theological case that original righteousness was _natural_ to Adam before the Fall and that _Adam_ could have merited everlasting life according to the covenant of works. The payoff of this effort in theological retrieval is to underscore the majesty of grace in that sinners are right with God only on the basis of _Christ’s_ merits. Thus, this book mounts a case for the Protestant law–gospel distinction through the lens of the _imago Dei_ to highlight the sufficiency of Christ and his work.
Righteous By Design: Covenantal Merit and Adam’s Original Integrity (Reformed, Exegetical And Doctrinal Studies Series)$20.00
