 Early in 2005, Mark Dever sat down with R.C. Sproul for an installment of the 9Marks Ministries audio interview series. Their topic was "Theology & Books". Mark is an excellent interviewer and leads a fascinating discussion with R.C. giving some of the "story behind the story" for many of his books.
You can listen to the interview here.
Here are some of the topics and their corresponding time codes:
- 03:40 -- R.C. Sproul the Writer
- 11:22 -- Dever's suggestions of where to get started with R.C.'s books
- 16:42 -- How would you define total depravity?
- 17:47 -- Why is it important for pastors to get a hold of [total depravity] directly today?
- 19:05 -- One of the things I appreciate about your writings is you take depravity seriously. So many popular Christian authors out there are telling people that they should have better self-esteem, and that they should feel good. They're kind of therapeutic. You don't do that at all. You wrote one back in the eighties called The Hunger for Significance. Do you want to talk about that book for just a moment?
- 25:59 -- The Holiness of God. You were writing this because you thought people were just misunderstanding God. They had too high a view of man and too low a view of God.
- 28:30 -- You wrote [a book] on the heart of Reformed theology called Grace Unknown. (Now titled What is Reformed Theology?)
- 29:30 -- Willing to Believe, the controversy over free will.
- 30:50 -- The Dark Side of Islam
- 31:55 -- What's the basic idea behind unconditional election?
- 32:55 -- You talk about unconditional election in Chosen by God, which you think might be your most important book. Why did you write this back in 1986?
- 34:17 -- Much more recently you wrote Getting the Gospel Right: The Tie that Binds Evangelicals Together. This was essentially because of some of the confusion in the evangelical community because of the document Evangelicals & Catholics Together.
- 35:55 -- While we're thinking about the Gospel, tell us about the atonement. What is the atonement?
- 38:20 -- The Glory of Christ
Books on Apologetics (43:33)
- 49:47 -- Last doctrine to ask you about: perseverance of the saints. I'm a Southern Baptist, and that doctrine is abused when some friends talk about "once saved, always saved," and I'm scared that they've never been saved in the first place. But (perseverance) is a precious doctrine. You want to spell it out for us?
Books on the Christian life (51:50)
Again, you can find the entire interview here.
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