Writings of Loraine Boettner

1 01.00. Calvinism in History 2 01.01. BEFORE THE REFORMATION 3 01.02. THE REFORMATION 4 01.03. CALVINISM IN ENGLAND 5 01.04. CALVINISM IN SCOTLAND 6 01.05. CALVINISM IN FRANCE 7 01.06. CALVINISM IN HOLLAND 8 01.07. CALVINISM IN AMERICA 9 01.08. CALVINISM AND REPRESENTATIVE GOVERNMENT 10 01.09. CALVINISM AND EDUCATION 11 01.10. JOHN CALVIN 12 01.11. CONCLUSION 13 01A.00 Efficacious Grace 14 01A.1. Teaching of the Westminster Confession. 15 01A.2. Necessity for the Change. 16 01A.3. An Inward Change Wrought by Supernatural Power. 17 01A.4. The Effect Produced in the Soul. 18 01A.5. The Sufficiency of Christs Work to Evangelicalism 19 01A.6. Arminian View of Universal Grace. 20 01A.7. No Violation of Mans Free Agency. 21 01A.8. Common Grace. 22 01B.00 Limited Atonement 23 01B.1. Statement of the Doctrine. 24 01B.2. The Infinite Value of Christ's Atonement. 25 01B.3. The Atonement is Limited in Purpose and Application. 26 01B.4. Christs Work as a Perfect Fulfilment of the Law. 27 01B.5. A Ransom. 28 01B.6. The Divine Purpose in Christs Sacrifice. 29 01B.7. The Exclusion of the Non-Elect. 30 01B.8. The Argument from the Foreknowledge of God. 31 01B.9. Certain Benefits Which Extend to Mankind in General. 32 02.0. Perseverance of the Saints 33 02.1. STATEMENT OF THE DOCTRINE 34 02.2. OUR PERSEVERANCE NOT DEPENDENT ON OUR OWN GOOD WORKS BUT ON GOD’S GRACE 35 02.3. THOUGH TRULY SAVED THE CHRISTIAN MAY TEMPORARILY 36 02.4. AN OUTWARD PROFESSION OF RIGHTEOUSNESS NOT ALWAYS 37 02.5. ARMINIAN SENSE OF INSECURITY 38 02.6. PURPOSE OF THE SCRIPTURE WARNINGS AGAINST APOSTASY 39 02.7. SCRIPTURE PROOF 40 03.00. Postmillennialism 41 03.01. Introduction 42 03.02. Representative Theologians 43 03.03. Statement of the Doctrine 44 03.04. Inadequate Terminology 45 03.05. A Redeemed World or Race 46 03.06. The Vastness of the Redeemed Multitude 47 03.07. The World is Growing Better 48 03.08. Material Prosperity During the Millennium 49 03.09. The Millennium Not A Perfect or Sinless State 50 03.10. Approaches by Imperceptible Degrees 51 03.11. The Thousand Years A Symbolic Figure 52 03.12. The Final Apostasy and Rebellion? 53 03.13. Principles of Interpretation 54 03.14. The Old Testament Sacrificial System 55 03.15. The Nature and Purpose of Prophecy 56 04.00. ROMAN CATHOLICISM 57 04.01. Introduction 58 04.02. The Church 59 04.03. The Priesthood 60 04.04. Tradition 61 04.05. Peter 62 04.06. The Papacy 63 04.07. Mary 64 04.08. The Mass 65 04.09. The Confessional 66 04.10. Purgatory 67 04.11. The Infallibility of the Pope 68 04.12. Penance & Indulgences 69 04.13. Ritualism 70 04.14. Celibacy 71 04.15. Marriage 72 04.16. The Parochial School 73 04.17. By What Moral Standard 74 04.18. Intolerance, Bigotry, Persecution 75 04.19. A System Tested By Its Fruits 76 04A.00 Salvation by Grace 77 04A.1. Man's Ill-desert. 78 04A.2. God May Give or Withhold Grace as He Pleases. 79 04A.3. Salvation not to be Earned by Man_1:3. SALVATION NOT TO BE EARNED BY MAN 80 04A.4. Scripture Proof. 81 04A.5. Further Remarks. 82 05.0. The Atonement 83 05.1. THE ATONEMENT 84 05.2. THE SIGNIFICANCE OF CHRIST'S DEATH 85 05.3. THE SATISFACTION VIEW OF THE ATONEMENT 86 05.4. THE ACTIVE AND PASSIVE OBEDIENCE OF CHRIST 87 05.5. CHRIST AS OUR RANSOMER 88 05.6. THE REPRESENTATIVE PRINCIPLE 89 06.0. The Inspiration Of Scripture 90 06.1. The Nature of Scripture Inspiration 91 06.2. The Writers Claim Inspiration 92 06.3. The Nature of the Influence by Which 93 06.4. The Alleged Errors in Scripture 94 06.5. The Trustworthiness of the Bible 95 06.6. The Plenary Inspiration of the Bible 96 07.00. The Reformed Doctrine Of Predestination 97 07.01. Chapter 1 Introduction 98 07.02. Chapter 2 Statement of the Doctrine 99 07.03. Chapter 3 God Has a Plan 100 07.04. Chapter 4 The Sovereignty of God 101 07.05. Chapter 5 The Providence of God 102 07.06. Chapter 6 The Foreknowledge of God 103 07.07. Chapter 7 Outline of Systems 104 07.08. Chapter 8 The Scritpures are the Final Authority by Which Systems are to be Judged 105 07.09 Chapter 9 A Warning Against Undue Sprculation 106 07.10. Chapter 10 The Five Points of Calvinism 107 07.10.1. Chapter 10a Total Inability 108 07.11. Chapter 11 The Reformed Doctrine of Predestination 109 07.11.1. Chapter 11.1 cont'd 110 07.11.2. Chapter 11.2 cont'd1 111 07.12. Chapter 12 Limited Atonement 112 07.13. Chapter 13 Efficacious Grace 113 07.14. Chapter 14 The Perseverance of the Saints 114 07.15. Chapter 15 That It Is Fatalism 115 07.16. Chapter 16 That It Is Inconsistent With the Free Agency and Moral Responsibility of Man 116 07.17. Chapter 17 That It Makes God the Author of Sin 117 07.18. Chapter 18 That It Discourages All Motives To Exertion 118 07.19. Chapter 19 That It Discourages All Motives To Exertion 119 07.20. Chapter 20 That It Is Unfavorable To Good Morality 120 07.21. Chapter 21 That It Precludes A Sincere Offer of The Gospel To The Non-Elect 121 07.22. Chapter 22 That It Contradicts The Universalistic Scripture Passages 122 07.23. Chapter 23 Salvation By Grace 123 07.24. Chapter 24 Personal Assurance That One is Among The Elect 124 07.25. Chapter 25 Predestination In The Physical World 125 07.26. Chapter 26 A Comparison With The Mohammedan Doctrine of Predestination 126 07.27. Appendix 127 08.0. THE REFORMED FAITH 128 08.1. The Sovereignty of God 129 08.2. Man's Totally Helpless Condition 130 08.3. Christ's Atonement 131 08.4. God's Foreknowledge 132 08.5. The Universalistic Passages 133 08.6. The Two systems Contrasted 134 09.00. Studies in Theology 135 09.01. Introduction 136 09.02. Statement of the Doctrine 137 09.03. Further Scripture Proof 138 09.04. The Trinity in the Old Testament 139 09.05. One Substance, Three Persons 140 09.06. Meaning of the Terms "Father", "Son", 141 09.07. Subordination of the Son and Spirit to the 142 09.08. The Generation of the Son and the 143 09.09. The Trinity Presents a Mystery but not a 144 09.10. Historical Aspects of the Doctrine 145 09.11. Practical Importance of the Doctrine 146 10.00. Total Depravity 147 10.01. Statement of The Doctrine 148 10.02. The Extent And Effects of Original Sin 149 10.03. The Defects in Man's Common Virtues 150 10.04. The Fall of Man 151 10.05. The Representative Principle 152 10.06. The Goodness and Severity of God 153 10.07. Scripture Proof 154 11.00 Unconditional Election 155 11.1. Statement of the Doctrine 156 11.2. Proof From Scripture 157 11.3. Proof from Reason 158 11.4. Faith and Good Works are the Fruits and Proof, not the Basis of Election 159 11.5. Reprobation 160 11.6. Infralapsarianism and Supralapsarianism 161 S. INFRALAPSARIANISM AND SUPRALAPSARIANISM 162 S. The Differences Between the Calvinistic & Arminian System of TheologyTitle/Content 163 S. The Universalistic Passages 164 S. What is the Gospel?