Released in the UK November 2024
Released in the US November 2024
Large trade paperback | 384 Pages
9781527111578 • £17.99 $24.99
BISAC – REL067110
Righteous By Design
Covenantal Merit and Adam’s Original Integrity
Harrison Perkins
Covenant of Works
Underscores grace on the basis of Christ’s merits
Part of Reformed Exegetical Doctrinal Studies
The quest for eternal life intersects with theological debates on grace, works, and human nature. While medieval and Roman Catholic traditions suggested that merit was earned through works, the Reformation tradition emphasized salvation by grace alone, due to humanity’s corruption by sin. Perkins examines historical, biblical, and systematic theology to argue for Adam’s original righteousness, emphasizing the sufficiency of Christ’s merits over human effort, and reinforces the law–gospel distinction and the significance of grace.
Harrison Perkins
Harrison Perkins (PhD, Queen’s University Belfast) is pastor at Oakland Hills Community Church (OPC), Senior Research Fellow at the Craig Center for the Study of the Westminster Standards, online faculty in church history at Westminster Theological Seminary, visiting lecturer in systematic theology at Edinburgh Theological Seminary, and author of ‘Reformed Covenant Theology: A Systematic Introduction’.
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Mentor
… Harrison Perkins tackles some difficult and nuanced questions over law and gospel, merit and mercy, and nature and grace. … Particularly, his painstaking attention to nuances in medieval views on righteousness and merit, with their lasting implications, represents ground rarely covered by Reformed Protestants.
Ryan M. McGraw
Morton H. Smith Professor of Systematic Theology, Greenville Presbyterian Theological Seminary, Greenville, South Carolina
The value of this book is found in its close engagement with primary and secondary sources arguing in favor of and alongside the Reformed confessional heritage since the sixteenth century on such topics as the covenant of works and the covenant of grace …. It is worth our time as pastors, theologians, and students to engage with this book and its concepts.
Todd Rester
Associate Professor of Church History, Westminster Theological Seminary, Philadelphia
Perkins’ volume showcases God’s wisdom, goodness, and grace in his works of creation and redemption, as well as our high human calling—from the beginning and finally realized in Christ. This book will enrich and bless its readers.
David VanDrunen
Robert B. Strimple Professor of Systematic Theology and Christian Ethics, Westminster Seminary in California, Escondido, California
… an exemplary and much–needed work of constructive retrieval on the relationship between nature and grace.
N. Gray Sutanto
Assistant Professor, Systematic Theology, Reformed Theological Seminary, Washington, D.C.