The most thorough biblical and historical case Dave Armstrong has ever assembled against justification by faith alone — 525 Bible passages and 30 Church Fathers, all marshaled to show that the central doctrine of the Protestant Reformation was a 16th-century theological novelty with no precedent in Scripture or the early Church.
Thirty chapters across four parts. Every Bible passage indexed and sourced from the RSV. Thirty Church Fathers in their own words on faith, works, and salvation — Clement of Rome, Ignatius of Antioch, Polycarp, Justin Martyr, Irenaeus, Tertullian, Origen, Hippolytus, and twenty-two others. The biblical and patristic argument that sola fide is exactly what its name implies: alone in history, alone in the text, alone among the witnesses of the early Church.
Armstrong’s longest single-doctrine book to date — 345 pages of close textual work, written for readers ready for systematic argument rather than introductory survey. The most complete refutation of justification by faith alone he has produced; almost certainly the most complete on the Catholic side.
