It is a delight to thank those who have helped to make this book possible. Matthew Barrett, for commissioning it for his series on the five solas. It is an honor to be included alongside Tom Schreiner, David VanDrunen, Stephen Wellum, and Matthew—men whose work I admire and have profited from greatly over the years.
I would also like to thank Ryan Pazdur and the staff at Zondervan for their patience with missed deadlines and then the care with which they edited the manuscript and brought it to the requisite standard for publication. Special thanks are also due to Matthew and Ryan, as well as Michael Wittmer of Cornerstone University, for extremely helpful comments on my first draft. I wish also to thank my friend Matthew Levering of Mundelein Seminary for kindly reading and offering important comments on the Aquinas chapter.
Last, I want to thank my wife, Catriona, for her perennial encouragement, and my two sons, John and Peter, though now gone from home, for being such supports over the years.
Carl R. Trueman
Oreland, Pennsylvania
December 2015