Sanctification
The ongoing work of the Holy Spirit by which believers are conformed to Christ in love, holiness, and obedience.
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Resources on Sanctification
10 resources on Sanctification, in curated order
Topic 5: Reformed Piety
Seminar readings open with Calvin on the Christian life (Institutes III.6-10) and the Westminster Larger Catechism (QQ. 91-196) as primary statements of Reformed piety. Barth’s Church Dogmatics IV/4 on baptism as the foundation of the Christian life provides a major twentieth-century counterpoint.
Topic 14: Jonathan Edwards: The Religious Affections
A focused introduction to Jonathan Edwards built around his Religious Affections, edited by John E. Smith for the Yale edition, as the primary text. The biography by George Marsden, Jonathan Edwards: A Life, is the definitive secondary work, supplemented by Perry Miller’s classic intellectual biography and John Smith’s Jonathan Edwards: Puritan, Preacher, Philosopher.
Topic 18: The Christian Life
A focused reading list on the Christian life: Calvin’s classic chapters in the Institutes (Book III, chapters 6-10), Leith’s Yale dissertation John Calvin’s Doctrine of the Christian Life, and Richard B. Hays’ The Moral Vision of the New Testament. The bibliography draws together Reformed theology and New Testament ethics as a single picture of life shaped by the gospel.
John Calvin’s Doctrine of the Christian Life
A thorough investigation of Calvinist doctrine, defining the Reformer’s teaching on Christian life in the context of his theology, with discussion of justification by faith, providence and predestination, history and the transhistorical, and church and society.
Bondage and Liberation of the Will in Calvin
Lane examines Calvin’s 1543 treatise against Albert Pighius on the bondage and liberation of the will, situating it within the dispute over free choice and tracing Calvin’s reply to Pighius’s first six books of objections.
Piety and the Confession of Sin
Carlos M. N. Eire argues that Reformation scholarship has under-attended the Reformed attack on idolatry, contending that Calvin’s polemic against Catholic worship was no transitional concern but a central animating issue shaping the formation of Protestant theology and piety.
Justification and Sanctification
Dr. Leith treats the twin doctrines of justification and sanctification, showing how together they define the Christian life as God’s gift and the believer’s calling.
Visions of the Christian Life
The fourth Doctrinal Theology lecture draws together the patterns and visions of the Christian life as formed by the Word, the Spirit, and the community of the church.
Pastoral Care
In the fifth Warfield Lecture, Dr. Leith examines pastoral care as a theological discipline, rooted in the gospel and exercised through the particular relationships of congregational life.
A Christmas Sermon
Dr. Leith preaches on the birth of Christ, proclaiming the mystery of the Incarnation as the center of Christian hope and the ground of human joy.
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