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Faith Alone—The Doctrine of Justification: What the Reformers Taught … and Why It Still Matters is unavailable, but you can change that!

In Faith Alone: The Doctrine of Justification renowned biblical scholar Thomas Schreiner looks at the historical and biblical roots of the doctrine of justification. He summarizes the history of the doctrine, looking at the early church and the writings of several of the Reformers. Then, he turns his attention to the Scriptures and walks readers through an examination of the key texts in the Old...

that Luther and Calvin often quote Augustine, for in his theology of grace and his view of predestination they found a kindred spirit. Augustine often proclaims, especially in his anti-Pelagian writings, that believers are saved by grace and not by works. Salvation is of the Lord, for believers cannot do anything apart from what they have received (1 Cor 4:7), a verse to which Augustine returned again and again in the Pelagian controversy. Augustine differs from the Reformers, however, in that he
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