Monergism Books

Binding: Hardcover
Page Count: 700
Publisher: Trinity Foundation
ISBN#: 0940931540

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Description: This anthology of the best that has been written on the purpose, structure, and function of the Christian church in the past five centuries is an indispensable resource for the twenty-first century Christian. The authors analyze and refute the errors of feminism, popery, clericalism, Episcopalianism, Erastianism, ecumenism, experientialism, revivalism, aestheticism, fundamentalism, and irrationalism; and they sketch a revolutionary blueprint for a Christian church modeled according to the Scriptures.

The modern church bears little resemblance to the early church or the church of the Reformation. Modern Christianity is marked by weak doctrine, a touchy feel good pastorate, a "do-what-thou-wilt" view of law and absolutes, anti-intellectualism, and as a result we have a confused laity as to the call and mission of the Church, so much so, that the modern church hardly reflects the determination of the Body of Christ that toppled Rome, twice. The essays in this book will inspire, and God willing, give the readers a glimpse of the pristine purity and power the Church once had. What we have lost site of, what we need to understand, is that the Reformation did not end in the Sixteenth Century. The creed Semper Reformada, always reforming, needs to be our creed too, now more than ever. Far from being the Church Militant, the modern church has become the "Church Effeminate."

This book is a collection of essays from some of the greatest Reformed thinkers past and present on the call and duty of the Church.

Contents: Robbins: The Church; Witherow: The Apostolic Church; Ryle: The True Church; Lloyd-Jones: The Primacy of Preaching; Adams: Preaching to the Heart; Ryle: The Fallibility of Ministers; Crampton: Exclusive Psalmody; The Geneva Service Book of 1556: Scripture and the Ordering of Worship; Miller: The Christian Education of the Children and Youth in the Presbyterian Church; Calvin: The Teachers of the Church; Clark: The Presbyterian Doctrine of Ordination; Warfield: Paul on Women Speaking in Church; Clark: The Ordination of Women; Robbins: The Church Effeminate; Luther: On the Councils and the Church; Hodge: The Relation of Church and State; Calvin: The Roman Church-State; Dostoyevsky: The Grand Inquisitor; Burroughs: Episcopacy; Witherspoon: Secrets of Church Polity; McFetridge: Calvinism and the Church; Chan: The New Babylonian Captivity of the Church; Robbins: The Reconstructionist Road to Rome; á Lasco: The Abolition of Vestments; Hanko: Ought the Church to Pray for Revival? Hodge: The Great Revival of Religion, 1740-1745; Luther: The Power of the Word; Clark: What Is Evangelism? Clark: Art and the Gospel; Calvin: The Necessity of Reforming the Church; Ryle: Idolatry; Ryle: Pharisees and Sadducees; Machen: The Good Fight of Faith; Ryle: Apostolic Fears; Machen: The Separateness of the Church; Robbins: The Sin of Signing Ecumenical Declarations; M'Crie: Fundamentalism and Ecumenism; Calvin: The Unity of the Church; Robbins: The Church Irrational; Index; Scripture Index.

Monergism Review: Wondering where to start your studies on the doctrine of the church? This is a great place, if not the best place to start, next to scripture. A splendid and masterful compilation! Full of practical and theological insight, this book is the best compendium on ecclesiology in print hands down! When I first purchased this volume there was a friend of mine (with a massive library I might add) who was very skeptical about the quality and content of this book, now one year later after purchasing the book for himself he cannot get enough of it, but is always making reference to its articles. There are certain essays that stand out more that others, particularly, Robbins on The Church and J. C. Ryle on The Fallibility of Ministers (my personal favorites) . If you have not read these articles you need to! It is impressive that one volume seems to contain solid writings on almost every major Church issue. You will be hard-pressed to find a compilation with more information. The amount of topics it covers and the quality of theological thought contained in the articles make this book unique and vitally essential…  (B. K. Campbell)