When History Teaches Us Nothing, Second Edition

“When History Teaches Us Nothing has been invaluable . . . a remarkable book.”


—D. Clair Davis, Westminster Theological Seminary, emeritus





“Tim J. R. Trumper’s When History Teaches Us Nothing: The Recent Reformed Sonship Debate in Context provides an irenic scholarly critique of Jack Miller and The Sonship Course. Trumper’s earlier research in “An Historical Study of the Doctrine of Adoption in the Calvinistic Tradition” along with his faculty position at Westminster Theological Seminary uniquely qualified and equipped him to address the then-current theological and historical debates surrounding Scripture’s important teaching on sonship and adoption.”


—Michael A. Graham, author of Cheer Up! The Life and Ministry of Jack Miller





“We are never too big to fail or too weak to prevail—this is the feeling that overwhelmed me as I read Dr. Trumper’s remarkable analysis of long forgotten and yet highly topical controversies concerning the sonship of believers. When History Teaches Us Nothing reminds us, in discussing the Millers’ Sonship Discipleship Course, that whereas the Father’s gift of Christ humbles us, since the Son’s accomplished redemption pro nobis is necessary for our adoption, the Father’s gift of the Spirit strengthens us by applying redemption in nobis.”


—Levente Horváth, Pastor, President, “Bonus Pastor,” Reformed Rescue Mission,


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