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The Plan Of Salvation

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"There are fundamentally only two doctrines of salvation: that salvation is from God, and that salvation is from ourselves." This is pretty much Warfield's passion in this book. It is written by an intellectual zealot for the Christian faith and the Reformed Tradition. Warfield's erudition may mean that his modern readers get stretched a bit, but if you want to understand how the various denominational distinctive views on salvation are fundamentally to be understood, this book is where to start.

The book is based on a series of lectures, as with Kuyper's Stone Lectures on Calvinism, and are therefore oriented toward an audience inclined to systematic study. The language on the whole is accessible and not overly technical. The lecture format gives the material a "bite-sized" nature which allows for reading in segments rather than having to carry a theme through the whole. All in all, this book will become indispensable to anyone who cares about the doctrines of salvation and needs grounding for their own understanding or for presenting it to others.

The Plan of Salvation is a series of five lectures originally delivered by B.B. Warfield. The topics include: Differing Conceptions, Autosoterism, Sacredotalism, Universalism, and Calvinism.

If we believe in a God, we believe in the control by this God over the world he has created. We must then believe in the plan outlining all that God does, and also in His plan of salvation. What then is God's plan for salvation?

These lectures by Warfield present a logical and incisive examination of God's plan of salvation from sin. They provide a valuable tool to a systematic review of the biblical truths to God's plan of salvation.

Warfield identifies the vital questions linked with God's plan of salvation. He provides a detailed analysis of the most dangerous answers that men have created to those questions. He outlines the detriment to men's souls and the impact on God's glory which results from those errors.

Warfield masterfully states, outlines and dissects the major views of the created's relationship to the Creator. The topics cover the span from a salvation possessed by all to salvation given by God to those he chooses.

If you are not sure where your theology is classified, read this book. Warfield succinctly outlines all major types of Christian theology. The book has a very useful table on "The Decrees of God" that also explains nearly all theological sub-groups within the spectrum of the Christian church. It is useful for Christians to posses this knowledge.