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Title: Almighty over All: Understanding the Sovereignty of God by R. C. Sproul Jr. ISBN: 0-8010-5964-X Publisher: Baker Book House Pub. Date: February, 1999 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $12.99 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.9 (10 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: more scripture quotation needed
Comment: A well written engaging book. Two criticism: not all Calvinists agree with his supralapsarian position, and even reform theologians say there is mystery to God's allowing the existence of sin. Also, insufficient citation of scripture to prove his points.. Consider AW Pink's book to read deeper (the Sovereignty of God)
Rating: 4
Summary: God the Father Absolutely Almighty Over All Finite Logic
Comment: A persuasive, cogent defense of the historic, evangelical position of God's Omnipotence and Omnisovereignty. You can't have one without the other. Recent contemporary attempts to finitize or downgrade what God supposedly can or can't do or know (such as open theism's deity who cannot have meticulous, definite, exhaustive, in toto, micro/macro knowledge of future free actions without rendering their decisions involuntary) need to re-examine their processistic preconceptions and compare them with the competition for inherent plausibility and faithfulness to the biblical record. Also, downgrading one attribute of God such as Omniscience automatically affects other attributes (Omnipotence, Omnipathy, Omnipresence, Omniwisdom) and His Whole Person. 'Tweaking one tweaks all'. This book, in conjunction with Millard Erickson's God the Father Almighty,and Paul Helm's Eternal God, is a must read!
Rating: 4
Summary: God's Sovereignty In Simple Terms
Comment: RC Sproul Jr. as been blessed with a gift to write clearly for a popular audience much like his father. This work, Almighty Over All, takes a look at what God is almight over, and what he is not almighty over. As noted by the title, there isn't much that he is not sovereign over! RC even includes a section on God's sovereignty over "nothing," which is something (at least it is a noun!). Unlike others who might find Sproul's work to be "nutty" or simply "theologically bankrupt," RC does include many texts to indicate that his position is not simply taken out of fanciful imagination. Even if he is wrong, at least his case is initially plausible given the texts he provides.
Now about the content of the work. RC's book is not very exegetical. Nor does it take into consideration a number of the more academic level responses to his position. If anything, this book would be a meditation book concerning the sovereignty of God rather than an indepth theological exposition. I take it that this work would be of good use for morning meditations.
About the argumentation in the book. Though I agree with RC on eighty-five to ninety percent of his conclusions, sometimes his arguments for reaching those conclusions just don't seem to be the best arguments in my opinion. For instance, one area I was not convinced was concerning the simplicity of God. RC takes it that God is a simple being, and the proof for this was found in Deut 6:4. I take it that this alone is totally inconclusive on the matter and not a sufficient argument. Saying God is one does not follow to mean that God is a simple being. Isn't this rather a proof-text for monotheism? So, over all, I like what RC has to say, but just that his arguments in some places needs to be reworked. On the other hand, Sproul follows the Edwardsian account of the Fall. This was pleasing to see and I hope that more theologians likewise become consistent in their account and do the same.
Nevertheless, my over-all assessment of Almight Over All is that it is a good book and would be a nice gift for either a new believer or someone with little theological training that wants to learn about the Reformed view of God's sovereignty; perhaps fitting for someone from the age of 13 and up.
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Title: The Holiness of God by R. C. Sproul ISBN: 0842339655 Publisher: Tyndale House Publishers Pub. Date: 01 July, 2000 List Price(USD): $12.99 |
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Title: Willing to Believe: The Controversy over Free Will by R. C. Sproul ISBN: 0801064120 Publisher: Baker Book House Pub. Date: April, 2002 List Price(USD): $14.99 |
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Title: The Sovereignty of God by Authur W. Pink, Arthur W. Pink ISBN: 0801070880 Publisher: Baker Book House Pub. Date: December, 1984 List Price(USD): $12.99 |
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Title: Future Grace by John Piper ISBN: 1576733378 Publisher: Multnomah Publishers Inc. Pub. Date: 09 November, 1998 List Price(USD): $16.99 |
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Title: Chosen by God by R. C. Sproul ISBN: 0842313354 Publisher: Tyndale House Publishers Pub. Date: October, 1994 List Price(USD): $10.99 |
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