Divine Election

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Divine Election is written by Gerrit Cornelis Berkouwer and published by Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 0802848133 (ISBN 10) and 9780802848130 (ISBN 13).

A discussion of election in a perspective and spirit that will be quite novel to most theologians and ministers. The author contends that election can be understood only within faith, and within a spirit of doxology, for election takes place 'in Christ'. Hence election must be understood and employed in terms of the Gospel. He then repudiates theological usage which employs election and reprobation as a principle of interpretation for theology with the usual consequence of deducing from this truth a nice logical system of theology. Another powerful feature of this book is its criticism of the conception of the sovereignty of God and then makes it into a mere principle of naked 'abosolute power', and ethically neutral principle of brute force. [Book jacket].