{"product_id":"prepared-by-grace-for-grace-the-puritans-on-gods-ordinary-way-of-leading-sinners-to-christ-9781601782342","title":"Prepared by Grace, for Grace: The Puritans on God's Ordinary Way of Leading Sinners to Christ","description":"\u003cp\u003e Few teachings of the Puritans have provoked such strong reactions and conflicting interpretations as their views on preparing for saving faith. Many twentieth-century scholars dismissed preparation as a prime example of regression from the Reformed doctrine of grace for a man-centered legalism. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e In \u003ci\u003e Prepared by Grace, for Grace \u003c\/i\u003e, Joel Beeke and Paul Smalley make careful analysis of the Puritan understanding of preparatory grace, demonstrate its fundamental continuity with the Reformed tradition, and identify matters where even the Puritans disagreed among themselves. Clearing away the many misconceptions and associated accusations of preparationism, this study is sure to be the standard work on how the Puritans understood the ordinary way God leads sinners to Christ. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e Table of Contents: \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Introduction: The Question of Preparationism\u003cbr\u003e 1. Preparation and Modern Scholarship\u003cbr\u003e 2. Precedents to Puritan Preparation: Augustine to Calvin\u003cbr\u003e 3. Preparation and Early English Puritans: Perkins, Sibbes, and Preston\u003cbr\u003e 4. Preparation for Conversion: William Ames\u003cbr\u003e 5. Preparation in Early New England (I): Thomas Hooker\u003cbr\u003e 6. Preparation in Early New England (II): Shepard and Pemble\u003cbr\u003e 7. Preparation and the Antinomian Controversy: John Cotton\u003cbr\u003e 8. Preparation at the Pinnacle of Puritanism: Westminster, Burroughs, and Guthrie\u003cbr\u003e 9. Preparation under a Scholastic Lens: Norton\u003cbr\u003e 10. Preparation and Later Puritan Critiques: Goodwin and Firmin\u003cbr\u003e 11. Later Puritan Preparation: Flavel and Bunyan\u003cbr\u003e 12. Jonathan Edwards and Seeking God\u003cbr\u003e 13. Continental Reformed Perspectives: Zwingli to Witsius\u003cbr\u003e 14. The Grace of Preparation for Faith\u003cbr\u003e Appendix: William Ames's Theological Disputation on Preparation\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e Joel R. Beeke (PhD, Westminster Seminary) is president and professor of systematic theology and homiletics at Puritan Reformed Theological Seminary; a pastor of the Heritage Reformed Congregation in Grand Rapids, Michigan; editor of Banner of Sovereign Grace Truth; editorial director of Reformation Heritage Books; and a prolific author. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Paul M. Smalley is a teaching assistant to Dr. Beeke at Puritan Reformed Theological Seminary and a bivocational pastor at Grace Immanuel Reformed Baptist Church in Grand Rapids, Michigan.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Reformation Heritage Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52127631737106,"sku":"9781601782342","price":17.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_7acdf756-5b8b-4e61-b37f-7dd82d9add01.jpg?v=1773740076","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/prepared-by-grace-for-grace-the-puritans-on-gods-ordinary-way-of-leading-sinners-to-christ-9781601782342","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}