Lectures On Theology Science And Revelation

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1863 edition. Excerpt: ...exigencies of man's condition in relation to God, the gospel is every way justified to reason, inasmuch as it has power to magnify the law and reclaim the sinner. Its power to magnify the law arises from the fact that while the sinner is forgiven, it is only because the lawgiver, Jehovah himself in the person of his Son, came out of the form of God and assumed the nature of man, and as man, fulfilled all the righteousness of law and bore all its curse, --thereby acquiring a merit that would have outweighed the demerit of a thousand worlds, --a merit achieved by a prostration which must render the sin that caused it a more loathsome and horrible thing than it could have ever been rendered by all the blasphemies of earth and all the torments of hell. Again, the power of the gospel to reclaim the sinner lies in the fact that it reveals the love and mercy of God towards man--a love that stooped from the throne of heaven to the cross of Calvary, that it might come within his reach, --a love also that is associate in him who brings it with the beauty and grandeur of moral perfection; a love therefore, which must at once melt the heart, and win the fancy, and transform the soul. Of this, how ever, I shall have in the sequel a great deal more to say. Meanwhile I content myself with affirming that no man can intelligently and realizingly apprehend the incarnation and atonement of Christ, without becoming a new creature in him. No being in any world can understand the gospel, without the shuddering recoil from the form of sin, and a newborn delight and complacency in the character of God. There are many questions of serious difiiculty connected with the view of the atonement I have given which would demand consideration. There are especially...

Dutch theologian Herman Bavinck (1854-1921) is widely celebrated as one of the top theologians in the Reformed tradition, and through the ongoing labor of translation teams, editors, and publishers, his vast writings are being offered anew to English-only readers. This book brings the groundbreaking framework of Bavinck's "organic motif" to the fore in one of Bavinck's most influential works. In the best sense of the title, the modern, yet orthodox Bavinck offers readers here both a philosophy of revelation and a philosophy of revelation. Philosophy of Revelation was originally presented by Bavinck at the Stone Lectures at Princeton Theological Seminary in 1908, that by itself deserves being published. This classic text is updated and annotated and may function as a supreme entry into the mind of Bavinck. Bavinck saw theology as the task of "thinking God's thoughts after him and tracing their unity." This project can be seen as "thinking Bavinck's thoughts after him and tracing their unity." Chapters include: - The Idea of a Philosophy of Revelation - Revelation and Philosophy - Revelation and Nature - Revelation and History - Revelation and Religion - Revelation and Christianity - Revelation and Religious Experience - Revelation and Culture - Revelation and the Future Author Bio Cory Brock is the assistant Pastor at First Presbyterian in Jackson, Mississippi. Cory holds a PhD in Systematic Theology from the University of Edinburgh. Editor currently resides in Jackson, Mississippi. Nathaniel Gray Sutanto (PhD, University of Edinburgh) is an elder and theologian at Covenant City Church (Jakarta, Indonesia), and an adjunct lecturer at Westminster Theological Seminary (PA). His recent writings have appeared in the Harvard Theological Review and the Scottish Journal of Theology. Editor currently resides in Jakarta, Indonesia.