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Faith and Perseverance

by G.C. Berkouwer

  • Paperback
  • 260 pages
  • Publisher: Eerdmans Publishing Company
  • 15.3 x 22.9 x 1.5 cm

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For theology students and seekers of deeper understanding

Addresses doubts about faith's permanence in your life

You will gain assurance and strength in your faith journey

This insightful book explores the doctrine of perseverance in faith.

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This is a print on demand book and is therefore non- returnable. In times when men's hearts are failing them for fear, in a period when many voices are clamoring for a hearing, the esteemed G. C. Berkouwer aptly commences his penetrating study by drawing attention to the timeliness and relevance of the doctrine of perseverance. He writes, "There is something very strange about this doctrine, something which confronts us with the problem of permanence in a unique way, because we are so conscious of our own changeableness. Our lives are subject to numberless variations and fluctuations. In the doctrine of the perseverance of the saints do we not have merely a projection of human desires, a hope which flies in the face of life's realities? Does it not grasp after something that is denied us as changeable men?" Facing this paradoxical nature of his subject, Berkouwer shows that the perseverance of the saints is unbreakably connected with the assurance of faith and warns us against speaking of constancy without standing in faith. To separate the doctrine of perseverance from its living and existential relationship to the gospel, to Word and sacrament, to promise and demand, petrifies it into a mere play of concepts drained of all life. The thoroughness with which Berkouwer treats the history of the discussions affecting this important subject (from the days of Tertullian and Augustine, through the Reformers, Ritschl, and Schleiermacher, down to Edmund Schlink and Karl Barth) gives this book a special value to all students of theology.
Faith and Perseverance and The Person Of Christ
The Person Of ChristFaith and Perseverance

  • Title

    Faith and Perseverance

  • Author

    G.C. Berkouwer

  • Book Format

    Paperback

  • Publisher

    Eerdmans Publishing Company

  • Published

    May 1958

  • Weight

    386g

  • Page Count

    260

  • Dimensions

    15.3 x 22.9 x 1.5 cm

  • ISBN

    9780802848116

  • ISBN-10

    0802848117

  • Eden Code

    1159440

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