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Studies in Dogmatics: Faith and Justification is unavailable, but you can change that!

In this present volume, the third in English translation of Dr. G. C. Berkouwer's ambitious series, Studies in Dogmatics, the author continues his project of bringing up to date the discussions of the great Reformed faith, and of making this faith relevant to the present–day crisis of human certainties. Like the other studies already published in this series, this book is reasoned, penetrating,...

the Holy Ghost calls, illumines, and sanctifies through the gospel.2 Such statements as these are said later to have led to a more systematic concern with the human soul in the process of being saved. This in turn tended toward a schematization of salvation, which Otto Ritschl called “a symptom of decadence.” It was traceable presumably to an erroneous tendency within the Reformation to think first of God as the Giver and Dispenser of salvation and secondly of man as believing, thence to put more
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