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Christ Alone - Rod Rosenbladt
Christ Alone
© 2015 Rod Rosenbladt
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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