RPM, Volume 17, Number 6, February 1 to February 7, 2015

The Reformed Doctrine of Predestination

By Loraine Boettner

Publisher: Grand Rapids, MI: Christian Classics Ethereal Library Eerdmans, 1932 (copyright not renewed during 1959-61 and has expired)
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Rights: Public Domain
Date Created: 2004-05-25
CCEL Subjects: All; Theology

About This Book	p. ii
Title Page	p. 1
Introduction	p. 2
1. Introduction	p. 2
Section I	p. 7
2. Statement of the Doctrine	p. 7
3. God Has a Plan	p.10
4. The Sovereignty of God	p.16
5. The Providence of God	p.19
6. The Foreknowledge of God	p.23
7. Outline of Systems	p.26
8. The Scriptures Are the Final Authority by Which Systems Are to Be Judged	p.28
9. A Warning Against Undue Speculation	p.30
Section II	p.32
The Five Points of Calvinism	p.32
10. Total Inability	p.32
11. Unconditional Election	p.45
Statement of the Doctrine	p.45
Proof from Scripture	p.47
Proof from Reason	p.52
Faith and Good Works Are the Fruits and Proof, Not the Basis, of Election	p.54
Reprobation	p.58
Infralapsarianism and Supralapsarianism	p.71
Many Are Chosen	p.73
A Redeemed World or Race	p.74
The Vastness of the Redeemed Multitude	p.77
The World Is Growing Better	p.79
Infant Salvation	p.81
Summary of the Reformed Doctrine of Election	p.84
12. Limited Atonement	p.85
13. Efficacious Grace	p.92
14. The Perseverance of the Saints	p.116
Section III: Objections Commonly Urged Against the Reformed Doctrine of Predestination 1. It Is Fatalism	p.117
3. It Makes God the Author of Sin
4. It Discourages All Motives to Exertion	p.148
6. It Is Unfavorable to Good Morality	p.159
8. It Contradicts the Universalistic Scripture Passages	p.168
23. Salvation by Grace	p.173
25. Predestination in the Physical World	p.179
Section V	p.183
28. Calvinism in History
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