Justin Genus’s Reviews > The Cross and Salvation: The Doctrine of Salvation > Status Update

Some really helpful quotes on the necessity and effects of regeneration. Ultimately, does not engage major Reformed voices on the ordo question. You wouldnt know his view was different from the typical Reformed position if he hadnt said something up front. Not a chapter I'd recommend on the topic.

Unconvincing arguments against OT regeneration confuse anointing and indwelling with regeneration. They also miss the nature of the differences between the MC and NC

Regeneration carries a lot of freight for Demarest. Some of his writing seems to fold other benefits of salvation into the category of regeneration.

Strong arguments against non-heretical forms of baptismal regeneration. Good work on 1 Pet 3 and Acts 2 (esp with Bruce NICNT quote).

Great quote describing the necessity of the new birth.

Includes cleansing from sin as a part of the new birth (in what sense?)

Born from above suggested in John 3:16

I'm with AH Strong on this one: “Regeneration, or the new birth, is the divine side of that change of heart which, viewed from the human side, we call conversion. It is God turning the soul to himself,—conversion being the soul’s turning itself to God, of which God’s turning it is both the accompaniment and cause.”

Lets see if Demarest can change my mind (special calling—conversion—regeneration)

Sneaky to slide the view that regeneration logically precedes faith in with presumptive and promissory regeneration lol. I've notice with Demarest that Calvin uses regneration differently from those after him. Worth looking into

I wanna say there's more dostinction between Lutheran and Evangelical definitions of regeneration, but Demarest focused more on the "baptismal" issue. And he did a good job on that!

He's tipped his hand that he sees regeneration as post conversion previously. And I know he sees it as a New cov reality, exclusively. Both i disagree with at this point. I need to read humbly here to not make his observations wasteful to me

Strong closing applications, though some ohrasing was unhelpful. Overall, Demarest is one of the good guys on conversion, a battleground in the 20th century. It's interesting and a little sad that most of his polemics in this chapter were against professed "Evangelicals."