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David Murray
Graham Cole
Professor of Old Testament and Practical Theology at Puritan Reformed Theological Seminary
Anglican Professor of Divinity, Beeson Divinity School
herever I ask people how they came to embrace the Reformed faith, if the answer is not “through the teaching ministry of R C Sproul,” then it’s usually, “through reading The Sovereignty of God by Arthur Pink.” Both Sproul and Pink were mighty influences in my own life too, but it was Pink’s Sovereignty of God that finally breached my own natural Arminian defenses and humbled my heart to embrace the doctrine of election. Whereas Sproul’s teaching was much more “gentle” and “reasonable,” it was Pink’s rapid, rapier thrusts of biblical truth that I needed most at that time. I wouldn’t give The Sovereignty of God to everyone; in some cases Sproul’s more “diplomatic” Chosen by God would be better. That is, if the doctrine of election can ever be “diplomatic”!
Author of He Who Gives Life; God the Peacemaker
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obert A. Peterson, Election and Free Will: God’s Gracious Choice and Our Responsibility (P&R, 2007). This book is biblically faithful, pastorally helpful and theologically insightful.
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