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Salvation by Grace: The Case for Effectual Calling and Regeneration is unavailable, but you can change that!

In Salvation by Grace, Matthew Barrett comprehensively defends the doctrine of monergism (the teaching that regeneration is exclusively the work of God) primarily by looking at Scripture but also by examining Reformed theologians and confessions. Barrett also provides a helpful evaluation of both the Arminian position and contemporary attempts to chart a middle course between Calvinistic and...

among contemporary evangelicals is that of Millard Erickson, Gordon Lewis, and Bruce Demarest.13 Such a view, while it borrows from both Arminianism and Calvinism, never fully agrees with either. The modified view’s differences are easily demonstrated through the logical ordering of salvation. In the classical Arminian view prevenient grace is primary, followed by man’s free will decision in conversion, and consequently God’s response in regeneration. Therefore, regeneration is causally conditioned
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