I was recently reading a fellow Calvinist’s (Dan) arguments against an Arminian on the subject of salvation at the follow URL:
http://pub54.ezboard.com/fdiscussingreformationfrm1 on page 5 of the “I was raised a Baptist. Does that count?” thread.
In the thread he used Peter Master’s book “Physician of the Souls”, as his main source.
However, the more I read the thread, if I understand it correctly; it doesn’t seem like the Calvinist position at all. But it says it is the position that the WCF, the 1689 BCoF, and of the English Puritans (at least) and Historical Baptists take on the subject. Apparently the book also says the “all at once” view is the recent interloper, having been popularized almost single-handedly (and extraordinarily successfully) by the normally excellent John Murray 50 years ago in “Redemption, Accomplished and Applied”. “Physicians of Souls” carries a critique of Murray’s view.
Peter Masters book “Physicians of Souls” has the stages of conversion as followed:
1. Conception (initial regeneration)
2. Awakening and Conviction (paired events)
3. Repentance and Faith (paired events
4. Justification and (conscious) new birth (paired events)
5. Assurance
Peter Master’s book “Physician of Souls” is a book that a few Calvinist friends have recommended to me in the past, but now I am not all that certain that I want to read it.
Any thoughts on this?
Tom
