Putting Amazing Back into Grace: Embracing the Heart of the Gospel
Overview
“The Gospel is a very specific announcement,” says Michael Horton. “It’s a message delivered from God to people in a precarious and hazardous spot—that is, to people like you and me.” But what exactly is that message? What does it mean to be “saved by grace?”
Now revised and updated, Putting Amazing Back into Grace reminds us of the Reformation’s radical view of God and his saving grace, the liberating—yet humbling—truth that we contribute nothing to our salvation. Horton lays out the scriptural basis for this doctrine and its implications for a vibrant evangelical faith.
The Logos Bible Software edition of Putting Amazing Back into Grace: Embracing the Heart of the Gospel is designed to encourage and stimulate your study of the Bible. Scripture passages link directly to your preferred translation and important theological concepts link to dictionaries, encyclopedias, and a wealth of other resources in your digital library. In addition, you can perform powerful searches by topic and find what other authors, scholars, and theologians have to say about the subject matter, making this collection ideal for studying and interpreting the Bible.
Key Features
- Explores disciplines of learning the Reformation’s message of saving grace
- Discusses Reformation’s radical view of God
Praise for the Print Edition
With all our technological expertise and intellectual arrogance, we have become the cleverest fools in world history. Mike Horton has seen through all the excuses and appreciates that true and timeless wisdom is found in the paths of the Christian gospel. Putting Amazing Back into Grace expresses the thrill of his soul—and mine—as we gaze upon the triumph of God’s almighty grace.
—From the foreword, J. I. Packer, Board of Governors’ Professor of Theology, Regent College
Product Details
- Title: Putting Amazing Back into Grace: Embracing the Heart of the Gospel
- Author: Michael Horton
- Publisher: Baker
- Publication Date: 2011
- Pages: 272
About Michael Horton
Michael Horton is the J. Gresham Machen Professor of Systematic Theology at Westminster Seminary California. He is the main host of the White Horse Inn radio broadcast and the editor-in-chief of Modern Reformation magazine. He is the author or editor of more than 20 books.
Top Highlights
“God does it all, and we contribute nothing but our sinfulness” (Page 24)
“And it’s cruel for people who know the real source of this guilt not to speak up, name it, and point others to the grace of God that resolves it.” (Page 55)
“We have distorted and disfigured God’s creation. We would have an excuse, perhaps, if we could say that there was a lack or a defect in our nature; yet the problem is not our humanness but what we have done with our humanness. We have directed all of our gifts, our religious, moral, creative, and intellectual abilities, toward a declaration of independence from God. We have used the very assets with which he endowed us as weapons against him. Clothed in his very image, we have shaken our fists at God and said, with Adam and Eve, ‘How dare you!’” (Page 47)
“I have often thought that one good defense for the inspiration of Scripture is the doctrine of election, for no mortal man or woman could have invented an idea that so glorifies God and so humbles the human ego.” (Page 63)
“God is gathering a people to worship him and to celebrate his majesty, a ‘called out’ group, chosen out of the world. The point we need to see in all of this is that it is a Person who is electing people, not an impersonal force. And the decision is not arbitrary but is caused by the love and mercy of a kind Creator who has gone to incredible lengths in order to save so many people. Thus we are ‘predestined according to the plan of him who works out everything in conformity with the purpose of his will’ (Eph. 1:11).” (Page 67)
- Title: Putting Amazing Back into Grace: Embracing the Heart of the Gospel
- Author: Michael Horton
- Publisher: Baker
- Print Publication Date: 2011
- Logos Release Date: 2013
- Language: English
- Resources: 1
- Format: Digital › Logos Research Edition
- Subjects: Salvation › Christianity; Grace (Theology); Salvation › Biblical teaching; Grace (Theology) › Biblical teaching
- ISBNs: 9781441252197, 9780801014215, 1441252193, 0801014212
- Resource ID: LLS:PUTAMAZGRCHORTON
- Resource Type: Monograph
- Metadata Last Updated: 2022-09-30T02:31:27Z
Michael Horton has taught apologetics and theology at Westminster Seminary California since 1998. In addition to his work at the Seminary, he is the president of White Horse Media, for which he co-hosts the White Horse Inn, a nationally syndicated, weekly radio talk-show exploring issues of Reformation theology in American Christianity. He is also the editor-in-chief of Modern Reformation magazine. Before coming to WSC, Dr. Horton completed a Research Fellowship at Yale University Divinity School.
A member of various societies, including the American Academy of Religion and the Evangelical Theological Society, Dr. Horton is the author/editor of 20 books, including a series of studies in Reformed dogmatics, whose final volume (People and Place: A Covenant Ecclesiology) was published in 2008. In addition to the popular Putting Amazing Back Into Grace, Dr. Horton’s latest books are Covenant and Salvation: Union with Christ, Lord and Servant: A Covenant Christology, and A Better Way: Rediscovering the Drama of God-Centered Worship. He has written articles for Modern Reformation, Pro Ecclesia, Christianity Today, The International Journal of Systematic Theology, Touchstone, and Books and Culture. Dr. Horton is a minister in the United Reformed Churches in North America. He has served two churches in Southern California. He resides in Escondido, California, with his wife, Lisa, and their four children.
