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No Condemnation: A Theology of Assurance of Salvation is unavailable, but you can change that!

This is a new, fully revised, edited and updated edition of Michael Eaton’s magisterial study of the biblical, theological, and historical dimensions of assurance in the life of a Christian believer. He challenges both traditional Arminian and Calvinist views, in which salvation and good works are too tightly bound together, by drawing a clear distinction between salvation and reward. Eaton...

scholastic Calvinism leads to what might be called ‘moral antinomianism’ (R. T. Kendall’s phrase), and it is ‘encouraging Calvinism’ that leads to the famous agape-love of 1 Corinthians 13. The reasons for this are subtle but I hope I can make them clear. In scholastic Calvinism faith secures godliness immediately, inexorably, irresistibly, infallibly. The great emphasis is on making sure of your salvation—a difficult task. If salvation is made sure godliness is sure to follow. If godliness does
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