{"product_id":"righteous-by-design-covenantal-merit-and-adams-original-integrity","title":"Righteous by Design: Covenantal Merit and Adam’s Original Integrity","description":"\u003cp\u003eHow Might We Obtain Everlasting Life?\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAlthough Protestants ought to have a ready answer about faith in Jesus Christ, the reasons explaining that answer run much deeper and relate to our status as God’s image bearers.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eImportant historical issues inform how we understand the precise relationship of work and grace. Throughout much of the medieval period and into modern Roman Catholicism, many believed that because original righteousness was superadded to our nature, personal righteousness could be restored by grace after the fall, allowing us to merit everlasting life by our own works. By contrast, the Reformation tradition has held that sin has damaged our nature so thoroughly that we could never merit salvation and must receive everlasting life by grace alone.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eRighteous by Design\u003c\/em\u003e is, on one hand, a thorough historical investigation of medieval and counter–Reformation theology, exploring sources that have seldomly if at all been treated in Reformed literature. At the same time, it is also a theological case that original righteousness was \u003cem\u003enatural\u003c\/em\u003e to Adam before the Fall and that Adam could have merited everlasting life according to the covenant of works. The payoff of this effort in theological retrieval is to underscore the majesty of grace in that sinners are right with God only on the basis of \u003cem\u003eChrist’s\u003c\/em\u003e merits. Thus, this book mounts a case for the Protestant law–gospel distinction through the lens of the \u003cem\u003eimago Dei\u003c\/em\u003e to highlight the sufficiency of Christ and his work.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eContent\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSeries Preface\u003cbr\u003eForeword\u003cbr\u003ePreface and Acknowledgments\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eCHAPTER ONE\u003cbr\u003eIntroduction: Getting Oriented toward Nature and Grace\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eCHAPTER TWO\u003cbr\u003eCovenantal Merit in the Reformed Tradition\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eCHAPTER THREE\u003cbr\u003eMedieval Discussions about Adam’s Original Righteousness\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eCHAPTER FOUR\u003cbr\u003eThe Road to (Modern) Rome\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eCHAPTER FIVE\u003cbr\u003eAn Ongoing Reformed Conversation\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eCHAPTER SIX\u003cbr\u003eCovenant, God’s Image, and the Nature\/Grace Question\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eCHAPTER SEVEN\u003cbr\u003eMerit in the Covenant of Works\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eCONCLUSION\u003cbr\u003ePastoral Reflections on Covenant Theology for Communion with God\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eBibliography\u003cbr\u003eSubject Index\u003cbr\u003eScripture Index\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eEndorsements\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe value of this book is found in its close engagement with primary and secondary sources arguing in favor of and alongside the Reformed confessional heritage since the sixteenth century on such topics as the covenant of works and the covenant of grace …. It is worth our time as pastors, theologians, and students to engage with this book and its concepts.\u003cbr\u003e—Todd Rester\u003cbr\u003eAssociate Professor of Church History, Westminster Theological Seminary, Philadelphia\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e… Harrison Perkins tackles some difficult and nuanced questions over law and gospel, merit and mercy, and nature and grace. … Particularly, his painstaking attention to nuances in medieval views on righteousness and merit, with their lasting implications, represents ground rarely covered by Reformed Protestants.\u003cbr\u003e—Ryan M. McGraw\u003cbr\u003eMorton H. Smith Professor of Systematic Theology, Greenville Presbyterian Theological Seminary, Greenville, South Carolina\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Christian Focus","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53009732534583,"sku":"kyw1789812417087","price":14.06,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0992\/8910\/4695\/files\/righteous-by-design-covenantal-merit-and-adams-original-integrity_1.jpg?v=1789812422","url":"https:\/\/effortlesschicclad.shop\/products\/righteous-by-design-covenantal-merit-and-adams-original-integrity","provider":"My Store","version":"1.0","type":"link"}