TY - BOOK AU - Boettner,Loraine TI - The Reformed doctrine of predestination AV - BT810 .B66 1969 PY - 1969///, c1932 CY - Philadelphia PB - Presbyterian and Reformed Pub. Co. KW - Predestination KW - Calvinism N1 - Includes index; Bibliography: p. 440; Statement of the Doctrine -- God has a plan -- The Sovereignty of God -- The Providence of God -- The Foreknowledge of God -- Outline of Systems -- The Scriptures are the Final authority by which systems are to be judged -- A warning against undue speculation The five points of Calvinism: Total inability -- Unconditional election -- Limited atonement -- Efficacious Grace -- The perserverance of the Saints Objections commonly urged against the Reformed Doctrine of Predestination: That it is fatalism -- That it is inconsistent with the Free Agency and Moral responsibility of Man -- That it makes God the author of sin -- That it discourages all motives to exertion -- That it represents God as a respecter of Person or as unjustly partial -- That it is unfavorable to good morality -- That it precludes a sincere offer of the Gospel to the Non-elect -- That it contradicts the universalistic Scripture Passages Salvation by Grace -- Personal assurance that one is among the elect -- Predestination in the physical world -- A comparison with the Mohammedan Doctrine of predestination -- Practical importance of the doctrine -- Calvinism in history ER -