THE WHOLE CHRIST
By Sinclair B. Ferguson
Crossway. 256 pages. £13.00
ISBN 978 1 433 548 000
This is the book that all the high-profile pastors seem to be reading at present – and it deserves that status.
It springs from what at first might seem unlikely ground – a discussion of an early 18th-century bust-up among evangelicals in Scotland, known as ‘The Marrow Controversy’. But this piece of rather arcane historical analysis turns into a most helpful exposition of the ever relevant pastoral issues of the pitfalls of legalism and antinomianism (faith without law) along with the positive enjoyment of assurance of salvation – the very fountainhead of joyful, experimental evangelical Christianity.
