The unique characteristic of Reformed Theology is its coherent and inter-related understanding of God’s eternal plan of salvation for His elect sinners, an inter-relation between covenant of redemption, Christology, predestination, and soteriology. 

God has chosen His elects before the foundation of the world in Christ to be in the covenant of grace, and Christ Himself had been chosen as well in the covenant of redemption as the Mediator, who will reconcile God and His elect sinners, and as Surety, who will reconcile the elects through His satisfaction on the cross, and then the Holy Spirit will apply the benefit of Christ’s mediatorship and suretyship for His elects in various stages called the order of salvation or ordo salutis, which begins from foreknowledge,  predestination, effectual calling, regeneration, conversion which includes faith and repentance, justification, adoption, progressive sanctification, and glorification.

The Puritan theologian, William Perkins (1558-1602), called this ordo salutis as “the golden chain of salvation.”

Hendra Thamrindinata

Lecturer of UPH Faculty of Liberal Arts (FLA), teaching Christian Worldview LECTURER