Where Can We Find Assurance | Stephen Williams

2009 Kantzer Lecture #6 - An Exposition of Romans 9-11 with a Positive Proposal

Professor Williams' sixth and final lecture dwells on the relation of election to several key themes: universalism, justification, perseverance and above all, assurance. Though he insists that election grounds assurance, nevertheless, all must heed both the promises regarding salvation and the warnings for falling away. One and the same individual receives both promise and warning. The truly exceptional contribution of Williams lecture is his christocentric idea of assurance. More than good works or the internal witness of the Spirit, there is only one to whom we can turn for faith and assurance of salvation, Jesus Christ himself.

Stephen N. Williams (PhD Yale University) is Honorary Professor of Theology at Queen’s University and served as a Senior Research Fellow with the Creation Project. His books include Revelation and Reconciliation: A Window on Modernity (Cambridge University Press, 1996), The Shadow of the Antichrist: Nietzsche’s Critique of Christianity (Baker Academic, 2006), and The Election of Grace: A Riddle without a Resolution? (Eerdmans, 2015).

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