Author: Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0198946538
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 318
Book Description
Author: Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0198946538
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 318
Book Description
No Other Savior But Jesus Christ
Author: Anthony TuckneyPublisher: Puritan Publications
ISBN: 1626630801
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 149
Book Description
Beginning with his text from Acts 4:12, “Neither is there salvation in any other…” Dr. Tuckney demonstrates that there is no salvation but by Christ, who is the only Savior. He shows this from God’s design that there is no name under heaven given to us by which we must be saved. Nor is there any temporal, much less any spiritual and eternal salvation other than which is found by way of covenant through Jesus Christ. In opposition to this, Tuckney takes to task those in his day (and ours) who say that salvation may be found outside the Gospel, which includes other religious views and philosophical arguments. Then, Dr. Tuckney examines the all-important question about those who might be saved apart from a true knowledge of the Gospel. These include those in heathen nations who remain in darkness and never hear the word of God, infants who die in infancy, and those mentally handicapped who have no ability to understand the Gospel. What does God do with such people? Tuckney examines this point by point with scholarly precision and a biblical answer. This is not a scan or facsimile, has been updated in modern English for easy reading and has an active table of contents for electronic versions.
The Treasury of David
Author: Charles Haddon SpurgeonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 504
Book Description
The Bible in Early Transatlantic Pietism and Evangelicalism
Author: Ryan P. HoseltonPublisher: Penn State Press
ISBN: 027109320X
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 392
Book Description
This collection of essays showcases the variety and complexity of early awakened Protestant biblical interpretation and practice while highlighting the many parallels, networks, and exchanges that connected the Pietist and evangelical traditions on both sides of the Atlantic. A yearning to obtain from the Word spiritual knowledge of God that was at once experiential and practical lay at the heart of the Pietist and evangelical quest for true religion, and it significantly shaped the courses and legacies of these movements. The myriad ways in which Pietists and evangelicals read, preached, translated, and practiced the Bible were inextricable from how they fashioned new forms of devotion, founded institutions, engaged the early Enlightenment, and made sense of their world. This volume provides breadth and texture to the role of Scripture in these related religious traditions. The contributors probe an assortment of primary source material from various confessional, linguistic, national, and regional traditions and feature well-known figures—including August Hermann Francke, Cotton Mather, and Jonathan Edwards—alongside lesser-known lay believers, women, people of color, and so-called radicals and separatists. Pioneering and collaborative, this volume contributes fresh insight into the history of the Bible and the entangled religious cultures of the eighteenth-century Atlantic world. Along with the editors, the contributors to this volume include Ruth Albrecht, Robert E. Brown, Crawford Gribben, Bruce Hindmarsh, Kenneth P. Minkema, Adriaan C. Neele, Benjamin M. Pietrenka, Isabel Rivers, Douglas H. Shantz, Peter Vogt, and Marilyn J. Westerkamp.
Ralph Cudworth: A Treatise Concerning Eternal and Immutable Morality
Author: Ralph CudworthPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521479189
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 260
Book Description
With A Treatise of Freewill.
Becoming Divine
Author: Brandon G. WithrowPublisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 0718895258
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 246
Book Description
Was Jonathan Edwards the stalwart and unquestioning Reformed theologian that he is often portrayed as being? In what ways did his own conversion fail to meet the standards of his Puritan ancestors? And how did this affect his understanding of the Divine Being and of the nature of justification? Becoming Divine investigates the early theological career of Edwards, finding him deep in a crisis of faith that drove him into an obsessive lifelong search for answers. Instead of a fear of God, which he had been taught to understand as proof of his conversion, he experienced a ‘surprising, amazing joy’. Suddenly he saw the Divine Being in everything and felt himself transported into a heavenly world, becoming one with the Divine family. What he developed, as he sought to make sense of this unexpected joy, is a theology that is both ancient and early modern: a theology of divine participation rooted in the incarnation of Christ.
Charles Hodge
Author: Ryan M. McGrawPublisher: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht
ISBN: 3647560898
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 340
Book Description
Most scholars of Reformed orthodoxy devote little attention to the nineteenth century, and most students of nineteenth century Reformed thought bypass the influence of Reformed orthodox ideas on their subjects. Aligning himself with Reformed theology in nineteenth century America, Charles Hodge's writings are an ideal place to bring such studies together. Hodge's American context and Reformed identity illustrate the persistence and change of Reformed ideas in a post-Enlightenment context. Encompassing philosophy, science, and theology, Ryan M. McGraw traces the development of Hodge's ideas with an eye both to Reformed orthodoxy and to American thought.
The Works of John Wesley Volume 12
Author: John WesleyPublisher: Abingdon Press
ISBN: 1426744307
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 509
Book Description
The first of three theological volumes, this volume is devoted to four foundational treatises on soteriology.
God's Last Words
Author: David S. KatzPublisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 9780300101157
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 428
Book Description
This wide-ranging book is an intellectual history of how informed readers read their Bibles over the past four hundred years, from the first translations in the sixteenth century to the emergence of fundamentalism in the twentieth century. In an astonishing display of erudition, David Katz recreates the response of readers from different eras by examining the horizon of expectations that provided the lens through which they read. In the Renaissance, says Katz, learned men rushed to apply the tools of textual analysis to the Testaments, fully confident that God's Word would open up and reveal shades of further truth. During the English Civil War, there was a symbiotic relationship between politics and religion, as the practical application of the biblical message was hammered out. Science - Newtonian and Darwinian, as well as the emerging disciplines of anthropology, archaeology, and geology - also had a great impact on how the Bible was received. The rise of the novel and the development of a concept of authorial copyright were other factors that altered readers' experience. Katz discusses all of these and more, concluding with the growth of fundamentalism in America, which broug
Ravished by Beauty
Author: Belden C. LanePublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0199831688
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 328
Book Description
In this novel exploration of Reformed spirituality, Belden C. Lane uncovers a "green theology" that celebrates a community of jubilant creatures of all languages and species. Lane reveals an ecologically sensitive Calvin who spoke of himself as ''ravished'' by the earth's beauty. He speaks of Puritans who fostered a ''lusty'' spirituality in which Christ figured as a lover who encouraged meditation on the wonders of creation. He presents a Jonathan Edwards who urged a sensuous ''enjoyment'' of God's beauty as the only real way of knowing God. Lane argues for the ''double irony'' of Reformed spirituality, showing that Calvinists who often seem prudish and proper are in fact a people of passionate desire. Similarly, Reformed Christians who appear totally focused on divine transcendence turn out at times to be closet nature mystics, exulting in God's glory everywhere. Lane also demonstrates, however, that a spirituality of desire can be derailed, ending in sexual excess and pantheism. Ecologically, holy longing can be redirected from a contemplation of God's splendor in the earth's beauty to a craving for land itself, resulting in disastrous misuse of its resources. Between the major chapters of the book are engaging personal essays drawn from the author's own love of nature as a Reformed Christian, and providing a thoughtful discussion of contemporary issues of species diversity and the honoring of an earth community.
