Since the days of the early Church, Christians have struggled to correctly understand the relationship between the law and the gospel. If, as the apostle Paul says, salvation is by grace and the law cannot save, how important is the law to Christians today?
Examining the Marrow Controversy—a famous but largely forgotten 18th-century debate over the relationship between God's grace and our works—Sinclair B. Ferguson sheds light on this central question and shows why it remains relevant today. . In doing so, he explains how our understanding of the relationship between the law and the gospel determines our approach to evangelism, our pursuit of sanctification, and even our understanding of God himself.
The author shows us that the antidote to the poisons of legalism and antinomianism is the same: the life-giving gospel of Jesus Christ, in whom we are simultaneously justified by faith, freed to do good works, and assured of salvation .
Author: Sinclair Ferguson
ISBN: 9782924895207