Confessing the Gospel: A Lutheran Approach to Systematic Theology, Volumes One & Two (Biblia.com)

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Confessing the Gospel: A Lutheran Approach to Systematic Theology is the culmination of a project that began over three decades ago to present the gospel taught in Scripture and confessed in the Lutheran Confessions in light of ecclesiastical developments of both the past and the present. The first dogmatics published by the Missouri Synod in nearly a century, this book seeks to demonstrate this...

utter helplessness and their need for God’s grace and forgiveness (Acts 2:36–37). Conversion in the proper sense is the gracious bestowal of saving faith in the human heart. It occurs when the Holy Spirit through the proclamation of the gospel creates faith in unregenerate hearts and causes people to believe that because of Christ’s vicarious satisfaction their sins are blotted out (John 1:12–13; Acts 11:21; 16:31; Gal 3:26). The Formula of Concord describes conversion thus: In a true conversion

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