Review of Robert Reymond: Contending For The Faith
(Reviewed by B. K. Campbell)
If you are reformed then you know who Robert Reymond is, the man needs no introduction, a first-rate scholar, deeply respected thinker in the reformed community. He has earned this respect over the years by producing works known for their exhaustive research and consistent Biblical information. Reymond is a man who calls us to orthodoxy, a scholar who warns us not to abandon the authority of Scripture, to take the arguments of those who came before us seriously. This volume will be welcomed by Reymond readers everywhere; as is common, the very standard of Reymond’s works, this volume promises to be sound, logically reasoned from the scriptures, packed with citation and original sources, but never overbearing, always keeping readability in mind. If you have books by Reymond, but are missing this book, then get it! If you don’t own any books by Reymond you should get this book and every other book, starting with his Systematic Theology. All his literature, every volume is worth owning and reading. It is inevitable that most of his works today will become the standards for tomorrow. Here is a man that pen’s theological masterpieces, works that are fully consistent with and clearly articulate the doctrine of Scripture. This book is no exception. The topics covered are important, timely and powerfully defended. I wish I could say that I owned every book by Reymond, but he has penned so many that they are hard to find. In time they will be back in print, but for now get all that is in print. Line them up on your shelf to read because they teach what is important, vitally essential and inescapably true…
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Chapter Table of Contents
1. The Justification of Theology with Special Application to Contemporary Christology
2. The Historical Integrity of Genesis 1-11
3. “In The Space of Six Days”
4. The Theological Significance of The Biblical Doctrine of Creation.
5. The Angels of God
6. The Contributions of Ugaritic Study to Old Testament Study
7. Salvation Principles Governing The Genesis Patriarchs and The Exodus Redemption
8. An Amicus Brief for Unconditional Election
9. My Vision of the Department of Systematic Theology in a Reformed Seminary
10. Revisiting How We Should Support The Doctrine of The Trinity
11. The Trinitarianism of the Westminster Confession of Faith: Nicene or Reformed?
12. Why Must Jesus Be God and Man?
13. The Sanders/Dunn “Fork in the Road” in the Current Controversy Over the Pauline Doctrine of Justification by Faith.
14. Lord’s Day Observance: Mankind’s Proper Response to the Fourth Commandment.
15. Children in the Covenant
16. Brunner’s Dialectical Encounter
17. Barth’s Doctrine of Election and Reconciliation
18. Bultmann’s Demythologized Kerygma
19. Dr. John H. Gerstner on Thomas Aquinas as a Protestant
20. Dr. Robert H. Schuller’s Self-Esteem: The New Reformation
21. Dr. John Stott on Hell
22. Review of Walter C. Kaiser’s Toward an Exegetical Theology: Biblical Exegesis for Preaching and Teaching
23. The “Very Pernicious and Detestable” Doctrine of Inclusivism
24. Why The Roman Catholic Church Is a Threat Only to Roman Catholics and a Non-Threat to Everyone Else
25. What’s Wrong With Islam?
QUOTE FROM THE BOOK
“Behind every other reason that can be given for a person’s salvation ultimately stands God’s sovereign, unconditional election. Without this feature of biblical salvation all the other reasons that might be advanced for one’s salvation lack any final ground, certainty, and assurance. This truth is so patent on the face of biblical teaching that it is not too much to say that the person who rejects it as being inimical to human freedom perceived as the real ultimate and distinguishing cause of salvation has not yet learned the ABCs of biblical soteriology.”
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