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Is Faith a Work? Of course not! But why not?
Roy Ingle (Arminian) says, “no.” And that’s fine. Properly considered, faith is not a work. But what is missing from his explanation is any cogent explanation of why obedient response to the command to “Believe,” that is proclaimed in the Gospel is not properly a work. For example, Ingle does not argue from the fact…
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Is Charity a Means to Salvation?
Does the Pope teach works salvation? The Vatican Information Service capsulized one of his recent talks under the heading, “POPE’S LENTEN MESSAGE: CHARITY AS A MEANS TO SALVATION,” but perhaps more significantly consider his own words, as provided by VIS: All of us have received spiritual or material riches meant to be used for the…
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Aquinas Opera Omnia – Fretté & Maré – Index Page
The collection of all of Thomas Aquinas’ works was undertaken by editors Paul Maré and Stanislai Eduardi Fretté in what is (to my knowledge) the largest collection of Aquinas’ writings. Google Books has digitized many volumes of this collection (in two collections – first collection and second collection, and I’ve provided links to the relevant…
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Works of Thomas Smythe
Thomas Smythe (aka Thomas Smyth and Thomas Smith) was a leading Southern Presbyterian who has unfortunately fallen into a degree of obscurity. Some of his background (and the source of the hot-linked image) can be found at the PCA’s historical web site (link). I am pleased to report that Smyth’s works are now freely available…
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Jonathan Edwards – Birthday and Works
Jonathan Edwards was born 305 years ago today. Arguably, he is the greatest genius in American philosophy and theology to date. He was also a very instrumental preacher. Perhaps today he is most well known for his work on Freedom of the Will (in theology and philosophy) and his sermon, “Sinners in the Hands of…
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John Gill’s Magnum Opus
John Gill was an amazingly prolific writer. It’s hard to pick between: A Complete Body of Doctrinal and Practical Divinity (volume 1) (volume 2) (volume 3) or (abridged) John Gill’s Exposition of the Entire Bible (link1) (link 2) I’ll confess to not having read through either of those, even in the abridged form, though I’ve…
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The Works of Francis Turretin
The Works of Francis Turretin are now freely available in the original Latin. It will be quite some time before they are fully translated into English. Nevertheless, for those that read Latin, the followings gems have been scanned into the Google Books collection: Volume 1 (link) Volume 2 (link) Volume 3 (link) Volume 4 (link)…
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Works of Thomas Boston
The Works of Thomas Boston, which are worth reading, have been scanned by Google Books: Vol. 1Vol. 2Vol. 3Vol. 4Vol. 5Vol. 6Vol. 7Vol. 8Vol. 9Vol. 10Vol. 11 Discovered over at the PuritanBoard (link); I haven’t gone through to check that the information is associating correctly to the correct volume. Remember that these are downloadable as…