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Grace Defined and Defended: What a 400-Year-Old Confession Teaches Us about Sin, Salvation, and the Sovereignty of God is unavailable, but you can change that!

Grace—a doctrine central to the gospel—ought to be clearly defined so it can be celebrated, relished, and consistently defended. In this book, Kevin DeYoung leads us back to the Canons of Dort, a seventeenth-century document originally written to precisely and faithfully define this precious doctrine. The Canons of Dort stand as a faithful witness to the precise nature of God’s supernatural,...

in 1611, it was increasingly clear to everyone involved that the two sides were only getting farther apart. The controversy further escalated when the University of Leiden appointed Arminius’s successor—a man by the name of Conrad Vorstius, who was not only an Arminian but practically a Socinian. When the Arminian Simon Episcopius was named as Gomarus’s replacement at Leiden, and the Arminians garnered further support from the statesman Johan van Oldenbarneveldt and the jurist-theologian Hugo Grotius,
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