Friday, December 18, 2015

Book Review: Acting the Miracle, General Editors J. Piper and D. Mathis

Product Details
Acting the Miracle.
General Editors J. Piper and D. Mathis
(Crossway, 2013)

This book is a recent contribution to the ongoing battle within evangelical circles concerning the theological concept of progressive sanctification.  Hopefully this text will be a helpful addition to avoiding the extreme forms of sanctification that emerged and been propagated within new evangelical churches. (Full review forthcoming)
Please see table of contents below.

Chapter One: Prelude to acting the miracle (J. Piper)

Chapter Two: Incentives for acting the miracle: Fear, Rewards, and the Multiplicity of Biblical Motivations (K. DeYoung)

Chapter Three: Sinners Learning to Act the miracle: Restoring broken people and the limits of life in the body. (E. Welch)

Chapter Four: Acting the miracle in the every day word of God, the means of Grace, and the practical pursuit of gospel maturity (J. Williams)

Chapter Five: Acting the Miracle together: Corporate Dynamics in Christian Sanctification (P. Moore)

Personally I thought the book was a refreshing contribution to the overtly reformed antinomianism which is becoming more and more prevalent in American evangelicalism.  I may not agree with the writer's more Reformed Calvinistic views on all the issues but its was still profitable reading.

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