A great work comparing the teaching of current "evangelicals" Daniel Fuller, Don Garlington and Norman Shepherd on the topics listed in the title with that of Martin Luther, John Calvin, the Reformed Confessions and scripture itself, showing the former to have fallen from the truth. I appreciate the depth of Waldron's study as he put much thought and study into this dissertation. He took care to give a background to the controversy involving the three antagonists and quoted from their primary works and has a helpful bibliography listing resources that he used and that one can search for more information on these topics. Dr. Waldron is definitely correct in the primary importance of these subjects for salvation, and he rightly distinguishes faith from obedience in justification.
Some criticisms are I would have liked Dr. Waldron to have elaborated on how Faith can be both "passive" and "volitional" or "volutarist" at the same time as he states on pages 57 and 95. If I of my own volitional will, voluntarily submit to salvation how can this be said to be passive? Dr. Waldron seems to ignore past debates on this vital topic. Robert Sandeman's book Letters On Theron and Aspasio, the Baptist, Archibald M'Leans debate with Andrew Fuller in his book The Belief Of The Gospel Saving Faith and Gordon Clark's, What Is Saving Faith? all would be helpful in putting our current situation in a context. I would also like to know where he thinks John MacArthur and Zane Hodges stand on these topics seeing that they had a debate on these issues back in the late 1980's. He lists them in the bibliography but does not discuss their debate.
All in all a good work and needs to be heeded on taking a stand on these vital issues and not falling prey to the wolves teaching false doctrine!
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