Pressing into Predestination
by : Duane Smets
This entry includes resources, both books, essays, online material for those who read more on predestination. The resources are not meant to be exhaustive but extensive. For the purpose of fairness, I have provided some materials from those who do not deal with the biblical material in the same way and end up with far different conclusions.
There is a lot of stuff here. If you just want to pick up one summary book I recommend, I Am Not An Arminian. The introduction is kind, fair, easy to read, covers some of the history and key issues involved in this subject.
The works which have influenced and persuaded me most are my dead friends: Augustine, Luther, Calvin and Edwards. Besides them John Piper, J.I. Packer and Charles Spurgeon have been the most passion imbuing, especially for how this doctrine relates to mission/evangelism.
GOOD RESOURCES AVAILABLE ONLINE:
A Treatise on Grace and Free Will by Saint Augustine
A Brief Declaration of Predestination by Theodore Beza
The Reformed Doctrine of Predestination by Lorainne Boettner
The Institutes of Christian Religion by John Calvin (See Book III, Chapters 11-14)
A Treatise on Eternal Predestination by John Calvin
The Freedom of the Will by Jonathan Edwards
Complete Works Vol. 2 by Jonathan Edwards (See Concerning Efficacious Grace)
Systematic Theology II by Charles Hodge (See Part II: Chapters 9-10, and Part III: Chapters 8, 14)
Of Effectual Calling by John Gill
The Bondage of the Will by Martin Luther
Monergism Essays Tons of solid stuff here.
Evangelism and the Sovereignty of God by J.I. Packer
Desiring God Ministries Tons of really good stuff from John Piper
A Defense of Calvinism by Charles Spurgeon
Some Thoughts on Predestination by B.B. Warfield
BOOKS (NOT ALREADY MENTIONED ABOVE):
Systematic Theology by Louis Berkoff (See Part 1: Chapter 2 and Part 4: Chapter 6)
Divine Election by G.C. Berkouwer
Divine Foreknowledge: Four Views by Gregory Boyd, David Hunt, William Lane Craig, and Paul Helm
Predestination by Gordon Clark
The Cause of God and Truth by John Gill
Systematic Theology by Wayne Grudem (See Chapters 32-33)
Debating Calvinism by Dave Hunt and James White
Lectures on Calvinism by Abraham Kuyper
A Treatise of Effectual Calling and Election by Christopher Love
The Holy Spirit by John Owen (See book 3)
Why I Am Not an Arminian by Robert A. Peterson and Michael D. Williams
The Pleasures of God by John Piper (The appendices: Is God Less Glorious that He Ordained Evil to Be? and Are There Two Wills in God? are extremely helpful)
The Justification of God by John Piper
Dogmatic Theology by William G.T. Shedd (See Part 3: Chapter 6 and Part 4: Chapter 3)
Calvinism: Pure and Mixed by William G.T. Shedd
Still Sovereign by Thomas Shreiner and Bruce Ware
Chosen by God by R.C. Sproul
The Five Points of Calvinism by David N. Steele, Curtis C. Thomas, and S. Lance Quinn
The Potter's Freedom by James White
NON-REFORMED MATERIAL:
The Works of James Arminius by James Arminius
The Remonstrants by the adherents of Jacob Arminius
Foundations of Pentecostal Theology by Guy P. Duffield and N.M. Van Cleave (See Chapter 5: Part 2)
Finney's Lectures on Systematic Theology by Charles Finney
Chosen But Free by Norman Geisler
Systematic Theology by John Miley
A Compendium of Christian Theology by William Pope
The Other Side of Calvinism by Lawrance M. Vance
Why I Am Not a Calvinist by Jerry L. Walls and Joseph R. Dongell
On Predestination by John Wesley
Free Grace by John Wesley
Christian Theology by H. Orton Wiley
Other thing I have written on this subject:
Comfort from the Doctrine of the Providence
How I Came to Embrace the Doctrine of Predestination