Some Resources on Reprobation

As part of Phil Johnson’s series at Pulpit Magazine, Why I Am a Calvinist (Part 5), the following question has come up in the comments: If some are elected to salvation, are others elected to damnation?

Specifically, one commenter, Jerry M, has asked the question this way: “As a 4 point Calvinist I am thoroughly comfortable with monergistic language in reference to salvation – but does monergism apply to damnation?”

While I do not intend to answer the question directly in this post, I will point the interested reader to some resources available in this discussion:

• Curt Daniel’s History and Theology of Calvinism, linked from part 3 of Phil’s series as a Microsoft Word document, contains a series of chapters on this very subject:
  • Chapter 47, The Doctrine of Reprobation
  • Chapter 48, The Hardening of the Reprobate
  • Chapter 49, The Destiny of the Reprobate
  • Chapter 50, The Relation of Election and Reprobation
• The audio of the source lectures for Daniel’s work are also available, including parts 47, 48, 49, and 50, corresponding to the above chapters.
• Desiring God contains an essay titled What does Piper mean when he says he’s a seven-point Calvinist? which discusses, among other things, John Piper’s view of “double predestination” (as this is sometimes called)
• R. C. Sproul’s book on election, Chosen by God, contains a chapter titled Double, Double, Toil and Trouble: Is Predestination Double?

I hope this collection of resources will be of some help to those examining this question.