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Ruined Sinners to Reclaim: Sin and Depravity in Historical, Biblical, Theological, and Pastoral Perspective (edt. David Gibson, Jonathan Gibson)

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Examining the Doctrine of Human Depravity in Scripture and throughout Church History

For centuries, theologians have debated the doctrine of total depravity—the belief that people are wholly and naturally corrupt due to original sin. Reformed theology upholds this truth, acknowledging it to be essential for understanding the gospel and humanity's need for a Savior.

Ruined Sinners to Reclaim persuasively reaffirms the doctrine of total depravity from biblical, historical, theological, and pastoral perspectives, drawing on the debates of theologians throughout church history. Edited by David and Jonathan Gibson, this book features contributions from respected theologians—including Michael A. G. Haykin, Gray Sutanto, Garry Williams, Mark Jones, Daniel Strange, and R. Albert Mohler Jr.—to help readers understand the reality of our sinful nature, its debilitating effects, and the Holy Spirit's role in salvation. This is the second book in the Doctrines of Grace series, which explores the central points of the Canons of Dort, providing a framework for understanding each doctrine in all its historical, biblical, theological, and pastoral richness.

Defends the Doctrine of Total Depravity: Including sin's origin, spread, nature, and scope, as well as its effects on free will

Comprehensive: Explores theological ideas throughout church history, including from the patristic, medieval, Reformation, and post-Reformation periods

Part of the Doctrines of Grace Series: Along with From Heaven He Came and Sought Her, this volume explores a central tenet of Reformed theology


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Endorsements

"In Ruined Sinners to Reclaim, twenty-six gifted pastors and theologians have joined forces to bequeath the church a rich, fruitful, and comprehensive survey of the doctrine of total depravity from the perspectives of historical theology, biblical exegesis, systematic theology, and polemics. With sensitivity to the contours of our increasingly secular world, the authors demonstrate how our understanding of total depravity should impact our evangelism, counseling, and preaching in modern contexts. Above all, the authors lead us to the spotless Lamb of God who takes away the sins of the world. This magisterial work is one of the most definitive treatments of total depravity available in the Reformed tradition."

Joel R. Beeke

Table of Contents

Tables and Diagrams

Foreword (Michael Horton)

Preface

Acknowledgments

Abbreviations

Contributors

Introduction

Chapter 1: "Salvation Belongs to the Lord"

Mapping the Doctrine of the Total Depravity of Human Creatures

David Gibson and Jonathan Gibson

Part 1: Sin and Depravity in Church History

Chapter 2: "Rivers of Dragons and Mouths of Lions and Dark Forces"

If in the Patristic Tradition

Michael A. G. Haykin

Chapter 3: "Give What You Command, and Then Command Whatever You Will"

Augustine, Pelagius, and the Question of Original Sin

Bradley G. Green

Chapter 4: Ruined Sinners in a Pseudo-Augustinian Treatise on Predestination

Francis X. Gumerlock

Chapter 5: The Bondage of the Will

Luther versus Erasmus

Mark D. Thompson

Chapter 6: "Whatever Remains Is a Horrible Deformity"

If in Early to Post-Reformation Theology

Raymond A. Blacketer

Chapter 7: Sin and the Synod of Dort

Lee Gatiss

Chapter 8: "By a Divine Constitution"

Old Princeton and the Imputation of Adam's Sin

Ryan M. McGraw

Chapter 9: "The Chief Evil of Human Life"

Sin in the Life and Thought of the English Particular Baptists, 1680s–1830s

Michael A. G. Haykin

Part 2: Sin and Depravity in the Bible

Chapter 10: From Eden to Exile

The Story of Sin in Genesis–2 Kings

William M. Wood

Chapter 11: The Folly, Mystery, and Absurdity of Sin in the Wisdom Literature

Stephen M. Coleman

Chapter 12: Breaching the Covenant

If in the Prophets

William M. Wood

Chapter 13: "If You, Then, Who Are Evil"

Sin in the Synoptic Gospels and Acts

Douglas Sean O'Donnell

Chapter 14: "Everyone Who Practices Sin Is a Slave to Sin"

If in the Johannine Literature

Murray J. Smith

Chapter 15: "Wretched Man That I Am!"

If in the Pauline Epistles

Jonathan Gibson

Chapter 16: "That None of You May Be Hardened by the Deceitfulness of Sin"

If in Hebrews, James, 1-2 Peter, and Jude

Brandon D. Crowe

Part 3: Sin and Depravity in Theological Perspective

Chapter 17: I and the Norm

Comparative Religions and Alternative Philosophies of Sin

Nathan D. Shannon

Chapter 18: Whence This Evil?

Toward a Biblical Theodicy

James N. Anderson

Chapter 19: Total Depravity and God's Covenant with Adam (1)

A Case for the Covenant

Garry Williams

Chapter 20: Total Depravity and God's Covenant with Adam (2)

The Imputation of Adam's Sin

Garry Williams

Chapter 21: The Heart Wants What It Wants

A Protestant Assessment of the Doctrine of Lust

Steven Wedgeworth

Chapter 22: On Revelation and the Psychical Effects of Sin

Toward a Constructive Proposal

Nathaniel Gray Sutanto

Chapter 23: Original Sin in Modern Theology

Charles Hodge and Herman Bavinck on Friedrich Schleiermacher

Nathaniel Gray Sutanto

Chapter 24: "He is bent upon himself"

Toward a Theology of Sin

Andrew Leslie

Chapter 25: "Distinguished among Ten Thousand"

The Sinlessness of Christ

Mark Jones

Part 4: Sin and Depravity in Pastoral Practice

Chapter 26: Losing Our Religion

The Impact of Secularization on the Understanding of Sin

David F. Wells

Chapter 27: An Apology for "Elenctics"

The Unmasking of Sin in the Retrieval of a Theological Discipline

Daniel Strange

Chapter 28: Evangelizing Fallen People

Apologetics and the Doctrine of Sin

James N. Anderson

Chapter 29: Counseling Fallen People

Applying the Truth of Sola Scriptura

Heath Lambert

Chapter 30: Preaching to Sinners in a Secular Age

R. Albert Mohler Jr.


Appendix: Scripture Versions Cited

Select Bibliography

Index of Biblical References

Index of Names

Index of Subjects

Product Details

Title: Ruined Sinners to Reclaim: Sin and Depravity in Historical, Biblical, Theological, and Pastoral Perspective 

Editor: David Gibson, Jonathan Gibson

Publisher: Crossway Publishing

Pages: 1040

Binding: Hardback

Size: 22.8 x 15.2 x 5.7 cm

ISBN: 9781433557057

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