by
GRACE
Anthony A. Hoekema
William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company
Grand Rapids, Michigan / Cambridge, U.K.
© 1989 Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Company
All rights reserved
First edition 1989
Paperback edition 1994
Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Company
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Hoekema, Anthony A., 1913–1988
Saved by grace / by Anthony A. Hoekema
p. cm.
Bibliography: p. 257
Includes indexes.
ISBN 978-0-8028-0857-8
1. Salvation. I. Title.
BT751.2.H58 1989
2234—dc19 | 89-30639 |
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Unless otherwise noted, Scripture quotations are from the Holy Bible, New International Version. Copyright © 1973, 1978, 1984 International Bible Society. Used by permission of Zondervan Bible Publishers.
To the memory of my dear parents,
Peter and Jessie Hoekema,
who first taught me what it meant
to be saved by grace
2. The Question of the “Order of Salvation”
3. The Role of the Holy Spirit
13. The Perseverance of True Believers
SAVED BY GRACE IS ANTHONY HOEKEMA’S SEVENTH BOOK AND THE last of three expository studies in central topics of Reformed theology. The present examination of the doctrine of salvation completes a series encompassing books on eschatology (The Bible and the Future, 1979) and theological anthropology (Created in God’s Image, 1986).
Tony completed the manuscript of the present study just before his seventy-fifth birthday. It was to be his last birthday and his last book. A few months later, on October 17, 1988, our husband and father died of a stroke he had suffered two days earlier. Thus did his life of teaching and scholarship come to an end and his experience of the saving love of Jesus Christ enter a new stage.
The author dedicated this book to the memory of his parents, a Frisian tailor and a strict but loving mother who shared their son’s joy in his ministerial calling but passed away before his first book (The Four Major Cults, 1963) was published. Our sadness in the loss of a husband and a father is tempered by thankfulness for his forty-four years of ministry to the church through preaching, teaching, and writing, and in seeing this book to publication we add a rededication to his memory.
Anthony Andrew Hoekema was born in Drachten, Friesland, in 1913 and moved from the Netherlands to the United States with his parents and two brothers in 1923. Tony attended Baxter Christian School, graduated from Grand Rapids Christian High School, and received the B.A. from Calvin College in 1936—a path also followed by all four of his children, thirty years later. He received the M.A. in psychology ...
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About Saved by GraceA comprehensive, dynamic, and eminently practical presentation of the biblical teaching on salvation. In discussing the facets of the working out of salvation—the role of the Spirit, union with Christ, the gospel call, regeneration, conversion, repentance, and so on—Hoekema does away with the classical ordo salutis (“order of salvation”) by viewing these facets largely as simultaneous aspects in the process of salvation rather than sequential steps on the way to salvation. |
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