Marrow of Modern Divinity

A 1629 theological dialogue that sparked one of the most ferocious controversies in Scottish church history. Edward Fisher stages a debate between a legalist and an evangelist, exposing how fallen humanity naturally gravitates toward earning salvation through works. The legalist insists sinners must "do to live," while the evangelist proclaims the scandalous alternative: righteousness received through faith alone, by grace alone. When the Church of Scotland formally condemned this book in 1720, declaring it promoted "antinomian errors," it only cemented its status as Protestant theology's most radical defense of free grace. The Marrow of Modern Divinity remains essential reading for anyone who wants to understand the enduring tension between divine grace and human effort, between being saved by what we do and being saved by what Christ has already done.