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Beginning to study Reformed theology is like stepping into a family conversation that has been going on for 500 years. How do you find your bearings and figure out how to take part in this conversation without embarrassing yourself? The Pocket Dictionary of the Reformed Tradition takes on this rich, boisterous, and varied tradition in its broad contours, filling you in on its common affirmations...

*perseverance. Numerous Reformed theologians have argued that irresistible is an unfortunate and even inaccurate description since it implies God working against human *free will. Reformed *confessions refer to grace “certainly, unfailingly, effectively” working in and through the elect (Canons of *Dort) or God drawing the elect toward himself, not coercively, but “freely,” as they are “made willing by his grace” (*Westminster Confession). Consequently, if grace is irresistible, it is by virtue of
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