{"product_id":"righteous-by-design-covenantal-merit-and-adams-original-integrity-9781527111578","title":"Righteous by Design: Covenantal Merit and Adam's Original Integrity","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eHow Might We Obtain Everlasting Life?\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAlthough Protestants ought to have a ready answer about faith in Jesus Christ, the reasons explaining that answer run much deeper and relate to our status as God's image bearers.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eImportant historical issues inform how we understand the precise relationship of work and grace. Throughout much of the medieval period and into modern Roman Catholicism, many believed that because original righteousness was \u003cem\u003esuperadded\u003c\/em\u003e to our nature, personal righteousness could be restored by grace after the fall, allowing us to merit everlasting life by our own works. By contrast, the Reformation tradition has held that sin has damaged our nature so thoroughly that we could never merit salvation and must receive everlasting life by grace alone.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eRighteous by Design \u003c\/em\u003eis, on one hand, a thorough historical investigation of medieval and counter-Reformation theology, exploring sources that have seldomly if at all been treated in Reformed literature. At the same time, it is also a theological case that original righteousness was \u003cem\u003enatural\u003c\/em\u003e to Adam before the Fall and that \u003cem\u003eAdam\u003c\/em\u003e could have merited everlasting life according to the covenant of works. The payoff of this effort in theological retrieval is to underscore the majesty of grace in that sinners are right with God only on the basis of \u003cem\u003eChrist's\u003c\/em\u003e merits. Thus, this book mounts a case for the Protestant law-gospel distinction through the lens of the \u003cem\u003eimago Dei\u003c\/em\u003e to highlight the sufficiency of Christ and his work.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHarrison Perkins (PhD, Queen's University Belfast) is pastor at Oakland Hills Community Church (OPC), Senior Research Fellow at the Craig Center for the Study of the Westminster Standards, online faculty in church history at Westminster Theological Seminary, visiting lecturer in systematic theology at Edinburgh Theological Seminary, and author of 'Reformed Covenant Theology: A Systematic Introduction'.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Mentor","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50874889306386,"sku":"9781527111578","price":17.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_039feae4-576f-4bce-a34f-de3805ab30b4.jpg?v=1738010625","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/righteous-by-design-covenantal-merit-and-adams-original-integrity-9781527111578","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}