Christ Alone

By Rod Rosenbladt and James Montgomery Boice

In our postmodern, pluralistic world, there are plenty of genuinely spiritual people who consider Christ a way to heaven, or even their way to heaven, but who refuse to acknowledge Him as the only way for everyone. In their estimation, anyone who stresses an exclusive, saving faith in Jesus Christ is at the least intolerant and, at worst, completel

• Language: English
• Publisher: 1517 Publications
• Release date: Apr 28, 2015
• ISBN: 9781945500343

Rod Rosenbladt

Dr. Rod Rosenbladt (Ph.D., University of Strasbourg), now retired, was a professor of theology at Concordia University in Irvine, California for over 30 years, and has contributed to numerous books and recorded presentations. He is also an ordained minister in the Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod (LCMS).

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Christ Alone

© 2015 Rod Rosenbladt

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Scriptures taken from the Holy Bible, New International Version®, NIV®. Copyright © 1973, 1978, 1984, 2011 by Biblica, Inc.™ Used by permission of Zondervan. All rights reserved worldwide. www.zondervan.com The NIV and New International Version are trademarks registered in the United States Patent and Trademark Office by Biblica, Inc.™

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Cover art by Brenton Clarke Little

Contents

PREFACE

Chapter 1: Solus Christus in the Scriptures

The Bible Is About Christ

A Bible Without Christ as Its Center

Definitions

Chapter 2: The Background of Solus Christus: The Law

God and His Law

Christ and His Work

The Forgiveness of Sins

Solus Christus and Sola Fide

Chapter 3: Today’s Theological Attack on Solus Christus

Pluralistic Theology

Postmodernism

Chapter 4: The Offense of Solus Christus

Chapter 5: Solus Christus and the Pastor

Preaching Christ Crucified

False Christs Being Preached in Our Day

Chapter 6: Summary and Conclusion

FOR FURTHER READING

PREFACE

These are not good days for the evangelical church, and anyone who steps back from what is going on for a moment to try to evaluate our life and times will understand that.

In the last few years a number of important books have been published all trying to understand what is happening, and they are saying much the same thing even though the authors come from fairly different backgrounds and are doing different work. One is by David F. Wells, a theology professor at Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary in Massachusetts. It is called No Place for Truth. A second is by Michael Scott Horton, vice president of the Alliance of Confessing Evangelicals. His book is called Power Religion. The third is by the well-known pastor of Grace Community Church in California, John F. MacArthur. It is called Ashamed of the Gospel. Each of these authors is writing about the evangelical church, not the liberal church, and a person can get an idea of what each is saying from the titles alone.

Yet the subtitles are even more revealing. The subtitle of Wells’s book reads Or Whatever Happened to Evangelical Theology? The subtitle of Horton’s book is The Selling Out of the Evangelical Church. The subtitle of John MacArthur’s work proclaims, When the Church Becomes Like the World.

When you put these together, you realize that these careful observers of the current church scene perceive that today evangelicalism

Reviews for Christ Alone

[Timothy E George · Rating: 4 out of 5 stars]

An excellent synopsis of a good Christolgy and the problems in the modern church.