Ruined Sinners to Reclaim: Sin and Depravity in Historical, Biblical, Theological, and Pastoral Perspective

by David Gibson; Jonathan Gibson

Publisher:

Crossway

, 2024

Overview

Examining the Doctrine of Human Depravity in Scripture and throughout Church History

For centuries, theologians have debated the doctrine of total depravity—the belief that people are wholly and naturally corrupt due to original sin. Reformed theology upholds this truth, acknowledging it to be essential for understanding the gospel and humanity’s need for a Savior.

Ruined Sinners to Reclaim persuasively reaffirms the doctrine of total depravity from biblical, historical, theological, and pastoral perspectives, drawing on the debates of theologians throughout church history. Edited by David and Jonathan Gibson, this book features contributions from respected theologians—including Michael A. G. Haykin, Gray Sutanto, Garry Williams, Mark Jones, Daniel Strange, and R. Albert Mohler Jr.—to help readers understand the reality of our sinful nature, its debilitating effects, and the Holy Spirit’s role in salvation. This is the second book in the Doctrines of Grace series, which explores the central points of the Canons of Dort, providing a framework for understanding each doctrine in all its historical, biblical, theological, and pastoral richness.

Defends the Doctrine of Total Depravity: Including sin’s origin, spread, nature, and scope, as well as its effects on free will

Comprehensive: Explores theological ideas throughout church history, including from the patristic, medieval, Reformation, and post-Reformation periods

Part of the Doctrines of Grace Series: Along with From Heaven He Came and Sought Her, this volume explores a central tenet of Reformed theology

Key Features

• Defends the doctrine of total depravity including sin’s origin, spread, nature, and scope, as well as its effects on free will
• Explores theological ideas throughout church history, including from the patristic, medieval, Reformation, and post-Reformation periods
• Features contributions from respected theologians

Contents

• Introduction
• Chapter 1: “Salvation Belongs to the Lord”
Mapping the Doctrine of the Total Depravity of Human Creatures - David Gibson and Jonathan Gibson

Part 1: Sin and Depravity in Church History

• Chapter 2: “Rivers of Dragons and Mouths of Lions and Dark Forces”
Sin in the Patristic Tradition - Michael A. G. Haykin
• Chapter 3: “Give What You Command, and Then Command Whatever You Will”
Augustine, Pelagius, and the Question of Original Sin - Bradley G. Green
• Chapter 4: Ruined Sinners in a Pseudo-Augustinian Treatise on Predestination
Francis X. Gumerlock
• Chapter 5: The Bondage of the Will
Luther versus Erasmus - Mark D. Thompson
• Chapter 6: “Whatever Remains Is a Horrible Deformity”
Sin in Early to Post-Reformation Theology - Raymond A. Blacketer
• Chapter 7: Sin and the Synod of Dort
Lee Gatiss
• Chapter 8: “By a Divine Constitution” Old Princeton and the Imputation of Adam’s Sin - Ryan M. McGraw
• Chapter 9: “The Chief Evil of Human Life”
Sin in the Life and Thought of the English Particular Baptists, 1680s–1830s - Michael A. G. Haykin

Part 2: Sin and Depravity in the Bible

• Chapter 10: From Eden to Exile
The Story of Sin in Genesis–2 Kings - William M. Wood
• Chapter 11: The Folly, Mystery, and Absurdity of Sin in the Wisdom Literature
Stephen M. Coleman
• Chapter 12: Breaching the Covenant
Sin in the Prophets - William M. Wood
• Chapter 13: “If You, Then, Who Are Evil”
Sin in the Synoptic Gospels and Acts - Douglas Sean O’Donnell
• Chapter 14: “Everyone Who Practices Sin Is a Slave to Sin”
Sin in the Johannine Literature - Murray J. Smith
• Chapter 15: “Wretched Man That I Am!”
Sin in the Pauline Epistles - Jonathan Gibson
• Chapter 16: “That None of You May Be Hardened by the Deceitfulness of Sin”
Sin in Hebrews, James, 1–2 Peter, and Jude - Brandon D. Crowe

Part 3: Sin and Depravity in Theological Perspective

• Chapter 17: I and the Norm
Comparative Religions and Alternative Philosophies of Sin - Nathan D. Shannon
• Chapter 18: Whence This Evil?
Toward a Biblical Theodicy - James N. Anderson
• Chapter 19: Total Depravity and God’s Covenant with Adam (1)
A Case for the Covenant - Garry Williams
• Chapter 20: Total Depravity and God’s Covenant with Adam (2)
The Imputation of Adam’s Sin - Garry Williams
• Chapter 21: The Heart Wants What It Wants
A Protestant Assessment of the Doctrine of Concupiscence - Steven Wedgeworth
• Chapter 22: On Revelation and the Psychical Effects of Sin
Toward a Constructive Proposal - Nathaniel Gray Sutanto
• Chapter 23: “Distinguished among Ten Thousand”
The Sinlessness of Christ - Mark Jones
• Chapter 24: Original Sin in Modern Theology
Charles Hodge and Herman Bavinck on Friedrich Schleiermacher - Nathaniel Gray Sutanto
• Chapter 25: Incurvatus Est in Se
Toward a Theology of Sin - Andrew Leslie

Part 4: Sin and Depravity in Pastoral Practice

• Chapter 26: Losing Our Religion
The Impact of Secularization on the Understanding of Sin - David F. Wells
• Chapter 27: An Apology for Elenctics
The Unmasking of Sin in the Retrieval of a Theological Discipline - Daniel Strange
• Chapter 28: Evangelizing Fallen People
Apologetics and the Doctrine of Sin - James N. Anderson
• Chapter 29: Counseling Fallen People
Applying the Truth of Sola Scriptura - Heath Lambert
• Chapter 30: Preaching to Sinners in a Secular Age
R. Albert Mohler Jr.

Product Details

• Title: Ruined Sinners to Reclaim: Sin and Depravity in Historical, Biblical, Theological, and Pastoral Perspective
• Authors: David Gibson, Jonathan Gibson
• Series: Doctrines of Grace
• Publisher: Crossway
• Print Publication Date: 2024
• Logos Release Date: 2024
• Pages: 998
• Era: era:contemporary
• Language: English
• Resources: 1
• Format: Digital › Logos Research Edition
• Subjects: Sin › Christianity; Sin › Biblical teaching
• ISBNs: 9781433557057, 9781433557088, 9781433557064, 1433557053, 1433557088, 1433557061
• Resource ID: LLS:RNDSNNRSPRSPCTV
• Resource Type: Monograph
• Metadata Last Updated: 2024-04-03T22:00:10Z