This is a great book. Lately, we have reviewed a number of books on this site dealing with the current controversy over justification by faith alone. If you only have either time or money for one; this is the one. It is a thorough, systematic, logical, Scriptural, and confessional refutation of Douglas Wilson’s book, Reformed is Not Enough. He utterly obliterates Wilson’s arguments and leaves him not a single confessional statement or Scriptural proof text on which to hang his errors. Actually, they are more than errors; they are heresies, for Wilson proclaims another gospel, which is no gospel, but the bad news that faith is not enough and rather than trusting in the perfect righteousness of Christ imputed by faith, our only hope is adding our own covenant faithfulness to our faith.

This book is a significant achievement. I recently purchased a copy of Wilson’s book to read for myself what he had to say. I got less than half way through it and it left me totally confused as to what Wilson actually believes. I found it a confusing, contradictory, vague work, where Wilson desperately attempts to sound Reformed and orthodox, all the while making statements and suggestions that undermine what he has just professed. Robbins and Gerety have unerringly been able to go to the heart of the matter, cut through the confusing doubletalk, define what Wilson means by the terms he uses, and systematically demonstrate what he is actually teaching. And once they have focused in on his beliefs, they annihilate them from Scripture and Confession. Wilson’s bluff, that his position is both the Scriptural and Confessional one, is called and shown to be fraudulent in the extreme.

This book is also an excellent exposition and defense of the true gospel of Jesus Christ and will renew the readers in their convictions with respect to salvation by faith alone as taught in the word of God.