Read excerpts from each book in The 5 Solas series
Yesterday we announced that for one week only The 5 Solas Series (Zondervan), edited by Matthew Barrett, is on sale for 45% off at Westminster Bookstore! Zondervan has also made available an excerpt from each book as well. If you click on the book title below, you will be taken to each individual excerpt.
God’s Word Alone: The Authority of Scripture, by Matthew Barrett
Faith Alone: The Doctrine of Justification, by Thomas Schreiner
God’s Glory Alone: The Majestic Heart of the Christian Faith and Life, by David VanDrunen
Grace Alone: Salvation as a Gift of God, by Carl Trueman
Christ Alone: The Uniqueness of Jesus as Savior, by Stephen Wellum
Historians and theologians have long recognized that at the heart of the sixteenth-century Protestant Reformation were five declarations, often referred to as the “solas”: sola scriptura, solus Christus, sola gratia, sola fide, and soli Deo gloria. These five statements summarize much of what the Reformation was about and they distinguish Protestantism from other expressions of the Christian faith. Protestants place ultimate and final authority in the Scriptures, acknowledge the work of Christ alone as sufficient for redemption, recognize that salvation is by grace alone through faith alone, and seek to do all things for God’s glory.
Five hundred years after the Reformation, we need to recover these truths and restate them for a new generation. As James Montgomery Boice once said, while the Puritans sought to carry on the Reformation, today “we barely have one to carry on, and many have even forgotten what that great spiritual revolution was all about.” In this series, you’ll travel back to the Reformation and learn where these rallying cries first emerged, examining the historical, biblical, and theological roots of the solas. Then you’ll learn how they are relevant today and how to apply the solas in a fresh way in light of many contemporary challenges.
Praise for the series:
The Reformation’s 500th Anniversary will be celebrated as a significant historical event. However, The Five Solas series explores the contemporary relevance of this legacy for the global church. Superb evangelical scholars have been enlisted not only to summarize the ‘solas,’ but to engage each from historical, exegetical, and constructive perspectives. These volumes demonstrate that, far from being exhausted slogans, the Reformation’s key themes need to be rediscovered for the church’s very existence and mission in the world.
Michael S. Horton, J. Gresham Machen Professor of Systematic Theology and Apologetics, Westminster Seminary California
A timely project, and not simply because the 500th anniversary of the Reformation will soon be upon us. Much of ‘who we are’ is determined by “where we have come from”; at a time when even so significant a part of our past as the Reformation is, for many, little more than a name, informed, accessible treatments of its basic principles are welcome indeed.
Stephen Westerholm, Professor of Early Christianity, McMaster University
The Protestant Reformation was driven by a renewed appreciation of the singular fullness of the triune God and his unique sovereignty in all of human life. But that profound reality expressed itself with regard to many questions and in a number of forms, ranging from facets of the liturgy to soteriological tenets and back again. I’m delighted to see this new series expositing the five most influential expressions of that God-centeredness, the pivotal Solas of the Protestant Reformation. By expounding the biblical reasoning behind them, I hope these volumes will invigorate a more profoundly theological vision of our lives and callings as Christians and churches.
Michael Allen, Associate Professor of Systematic and Historical Theology, Reformed Theological Seminary
I welcome this new series and its substantial engagement with the great themes of Reformation theology.
Timothy George, Dean, Beeson Divinity School; Executive Editor, Christianity Today
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