BOOKS ON THE CONTEMPORARY JUSTIFICATION BY FAITH ALONE CONTROVERSY

Section One:  
Books Defending the Historic Christian Faith

The Current Justification Controversy   
O. Palmer Robertson
This is a careful and scholarly review of the Norman Shepherd controversy. Shepherd, a professor at Westminster Seminary in Philadelphia redefined the doctrine of justification to include justification by faith plus works. The history of the controversy, the nature of Shepherd's views, and the tolerance granted his clearly heretical views by the ecclesiastical authorities involved are all thoroughly covered. A necessary book to understand the present controversy over justification by faith alone in Reformed circles.  To see the full review click on the title.

Companion to the Current Justification Controversy
John Robbins
This is a companion volume to the above work and includes some of the key documents in the Shepherd case. It also updates the struggle over the doctrine of justification by faith alone, explaining the arguments, and naming the organizations and the personalities, that are seeking to undo the Reformation and return to what is essentially a Roman Catholic soteriology. An important book for those who are committed to the defense of the historic faith of the church. To see the full review click on the title.

What Is Saving Faith    
Gordon Clark  
With all the recent controversy over justification by faith alone, it is important in this debate that we understand just what the Scriptures teach with regard to saving faith. To that end John Robbins of the Trinity Foundation has reprinted some of Gordon Clark's writings on that subject and has added a superb introduction that sets all this in the current context, and shows just how widespread the confusion is on this matter, and how crucial it is in the current struggle for the historic and Scriptural gospel of Jesus Christ. To see the full review click on the title.

Not Reformed At All    
John Robbins   
This is a thorough, logical, confessional, and Scriptural refutation of Douglas Wilson's (He is one of the leading Neo-Legalists denying justification by faith alone and rewriting the gospel) "Reformed Is Not Enough." For a systematic analysis of this new gospel, which is no gospel (i.e. good news, but rather brings the bad news that we have add our own covenant faithfulness to the work of Christ to obtain salvation) and an excellent exposition and defense of the true gospel, this is the book. To see the full review click on the title.

A Refutation of the Auburn Avenue Theology
Bryan Schwertley  
This is Rev. Brian Schwertley's latest book and is devoted to defending the historic gospel of Jesus Christ and the doctrine of justification by faith alone from all the recent attacks that doctrine has faced even in conservative Presbyterian and Reformed churches. It is an excellent antidote to those errors and an enlightening exposition of the Biblical gospel. To see the full review click on the title.

Section Two:  
Books Promoting These New and Heretical Doctrines   

The Call of Grace   
Norman Shepherd 
This is Shepherd's defense of his view that we are saved by faith plus works. After sowing confusion on this issue for twenty some years this book is as vague as as disingenuous as anything that Shepherd has ever said or written. Nonetheless, it is a book length statement of his views and when the smoke cleared the results were obvious, these are heretical views that are contrary to the historic doctrine of justification by faith alone which is at the very heart of the Biblical gospel and was one of the key doctrines of the Reformation.     To see the full review click on the title.

Reformed Is Not Enough:
Douglas Wilson  
This is Wilson's exposition of his issues with the historic Reformed Faith and his new theology which he terms the Federal Vision. It is a confusing and difficult read as he constantly professes orthodoxy on one page and then retracts it on another as he disputes the historic doctrines of the Reformation. Wilson is an influential figure in the neo-legalist movement and this book is important in determining just where he he is leading his followers.  To see the full review click on the title.

Against Christianity:
Peter Leithart  
This is Leithart's radical diatribe against the Reformed  faith and modern Christianity. His thesis is that the Reformation put us on the wrong track and we need to return to medieval Christianity, with its concept of Christendom, as well as its sacramentalism and ecclesiology.  To see the full review click on the title.