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| Author | : Howard L. Rice |
| Publisher | : Westminster John Knox Press |
| Total Pages | : 240 |
| Release | : 1991-01-01 |
| Genre | : Religion |
| ISBN | : 9780664252304 |
"Rice makes a concerted effort to point us toward new and exciting avenues of spiritual growth and development. I find the book provocative, stimulating, and challenging".---Ben Campbell Johnson, Peachtree Professor of Evangelism and Church Growth, Columbia Theological Seminary, Decatur, Georgia
| Author | : Joel R. Beeke |
| Publisher | : EP BOOKS |
| Total Pages | : 500 |
| Release | : 2006 |
| Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
| ISBN | : |
In these pages Dr Joel Beeke provides us with a first-class tour of some of the great sites of Reformed theology and spirituality. Here we meet John Calvin, reformer extraordinaire; then we encounter the learned Dr William Ames and the insightful Anthony Burgess. Soon we have traveled north to meet the Scotsmen John Brown of Haddington, the great Thomas Boston and the remarkable brothers, Ebenezer and Ralph Erskine. Predictably, but happily our guide brings us to The Netherlands and to the time of the Nadere Reformatie, before taking us back to the New World in the company of the remarkable Theodorus Jacobus Freylinghuysen. But the climax of this tour is not reached until our trusted guide has brought us to the family roots from which all these theologians and pastors came to the strong foundations of Christian living in justification by faith and sanctification in life, nourished by the power of biblical preaching. Author Joel R. Beeke (Ph.D. Westminster Theological Seminary) is president and professor of systematic theology and homiletics at Puritan Reformed Theological Seminary, pastor of the Heritage Netherlands Reformed Congregation in Grand Rapids, Michigan, editor of The Banner of Sovereign Grace Truth, and author of numerous books.
| Author | : Belden C. Lane |
| Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
| Total Pages | : 328 |
| Release | : 2011-04-21 |
| Genre | : Religion |
| ISBN | : 0199831688 |
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.
| Author | : D. A. Carson |
| Publisher | : Baker Academic |
| Total Pages | : 230 |
| Release | : 1992-06 |
| Genre | : Religion |
| ISBN | : 0801025699 |
Carson calls believers to revolt against superficiality and find again the deeper knowledge of God at Paul's school of prayer. Strong expositional study.
| Author | : Joel R. Beeke |
| Publisher | : Reformation Heritage Books |
| Total Pages | : 0 |
| Release | : 2013 |
| Genre | : Religion |
| ISBN | : 9781601782700 |
How does God bring His Word into our lives? The answer is: by the Holy Spirit. By the Spirit the Word was revealed and written. By the Spirit the Word became flesh and dwelt among us. By the Spirit the Word roots itself in the hearts of sinners and produces fruit. Calvin recognized long ago that the Holy Spirit is the bond of union between believers and Christ. Jonathan Edwards said that the Spirit is the sum of all Christ bought for His people with His precious blood. How precious then is the Spirit, and how important to know Him and His ways! In this book, a team of pastor-theologians uncover the rich biblical teachings about the work of the Holy Spirit. How was the Spirit involved in the human life of Jesus Christ? What is a spiritual person? How does the Spirit open the mind of sinners to trust in Christ? What does it mean to serve God in the power of the Spirit? How does the Spirit's sovereign work relate to our responsibility in evangelism? These questions and more are addressed in this book. Table of Contents: Part I: Geoff Thomas: A Faithful Instrument of the Spirit 1. Hugh Geoffrey Thomas: A Biographical Appreciation -- Gary Brady 2. A Minister Who Has Produced Ministers -- Paul Levy Part II: Salvation and the Spirit of Christ 3. The Spirit and the Word Incarnate: John Owen's Trinitarian Christology -- Carl Trueman 4. The Relation of the Righteousness of God and the Spirit of God in Romans 1-8 -- Sam Waldron 5. The Illumination of the Holy Spirit -- Joel Beeke 6. The Holy Spirit and Human Responsibility -- Fred Malone Part III: Growth and the Spirit of Holiness 7. A Gracious Willing Guest: The Indwelling Holy Spirit -- David Jones 8. John Owen on the Spirit's Ministry in Guarding the Believer's Heart -- Michael Haykin 9. Professor John Murray and the Godly Life -- John J. Murray 10. Living by the Spirit's Sanctifying Ministry -- Ian Hamilton 11. John Owen and Spiritual-Mindedness: A Reflection on Reformed Spirituality -- Derek Thomas 12. The Spirit of God in the People of God: A Celtic Spirituality -- Iain D. Campbell Part IV: Ministry and the Spirit of Counsel and Might 13. The Holy Spirit and the Call to the Ministry of the Gospel -- Stephen Turner 14. The Empowering Work of the Holy Spirit -- Conrad Mbewe 15. The Supply of the Spirit of Jesus Christ and Apostolic Ministry -- Austin Walker 16. An Elizabethan Cameo: The Ministry of Edward Dering -- Robert Oliver 17. Passion and the Spirit's Sovereignty in the Thinking and Evangelistic Preaching of Martyn Lloyd-Jones -- Gary Benfold
| Author | : Joseph A. Pipa |
| Publisher | : Southern Presbyterian Press |
| Total Pages | : 185 |
| Release | : 2003-01-01 |
| Genre | : Christian life |
| ISBN | : 9781931639033 |
Lectures delivered at the 2002 Theology Conference at Greenville Presbyterian Theological Seminary.
| Author | : Joel R. Beeke |
| Publisher | : Reformation Heritage Books |
| Total Pages | : 241 |
| Release | : 2013-10-11 |
| Genre | : Religion |
| ISBN | : 1601782713 |
How does God bring His Word into our lives? The answer is: by the Holy Spirit. By the Spirit the Word was revealed and written. By the Spirit the Word became flesh and dwelt among us. By the Spirit the Word roots itself in the hearts of sinners and produces fruit. Calvin recognized long ago that the Holy Spirit is the bond of union between believers and Christ. Jonathan Edwards said that the Spirit is the sum of all Christ bought for His people with His precious blood. How precious then is the Spirit, and how important to know Him and His ways! In this book, a team of pastor-theologians uncover the rich biblical teachings about the work of the Holy Spirit. How was the Spirit involved in the human life of Jesus Christ? What is a spiritual person? How does the Spirit open the mind of sinners to trust in Christ? What does it mean to serve God in the power of the Spirit? How does the Spirit’s sovereign work relate to our responsibility in evangelism? These questions and more are addressed in this book. Table of Contents: Part I: Geoff Thomas: A Faithful Instrument of the Spirit 1. Hugh Geoffrey Thomas: A Biographical Appreciation — Gary Brady 2. A Minister Who Has Produced Ministers — Paul Levy Part II: Salvation and the Spirit of Christ 3. The Spirit and the Word Incarnate: John Owen’s Trinitarian Christology — Carl Trueman 4. The Relation of the Righteousness of God and the Spirit of God in Romans 1–8 — Sam Waldron 5. The Illumination of the Holy Spirit — Joel Beeke 6. The Holy Spirit and Human Responsibility — Fred Malone Part III: Growth and the Spirit of Holiness 7. A Gracious Willing Guest: The Indwelling Holy Spirit — David Jones 8. John Owen on the Spirit’s Ministry in Guarding the Believer’s Heart — Michael Haykin 9. Professor John Murray and the Godly Life — John J. Murray 10. Living by the Spirit’s Sanctifying Ministry — Ian Hamilton 11. John Owen and Spiritual-Mindedness: A Reflection on Reformed Spirituality — Derek Thomas 12. The Spirit of God in the People of God: A Celtic Spirituality — Iain D. Campbell Part IV: Ministry and the Spirit of Counsel and Might 13. The Holy Spirit and the Call to the Ministry of the Gospel — Stephen Turner 14. The Empowering Work of the Holy Spirit — Conrad Mbewe 15. The Supply of the Spirit of Jesus Christ and Apostolic Ministry — Austin Walker 16. An Elizabethan Cameo: The Ministry of Edward Dering — Robert Oliver 17. Passion and the Spirit’s Sovereignty in the Thinking and Evangelistic Preaching of Martyn Lloyd-Jones — Gary Benfold
| Author | : Brad S. Gregory |
| Publisher | : Harvard University Press |
| Total Pages | : 345 |
| Release | : 2015-11-16 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 067426407X |
In a work that is as much about the present as the past, Brad Gregory identifies the unintended consequences of the Protestant Reformation and traces the way it shaped the modern condition over the course of the following five centuries. A hyperpluralism of religious and secular beliefs, an absence of any substantive common good, the triumph of capitalism and its driver, consumerism—all these, Gregory argues, were long-term effects of a movement that marked the end of more than a millennium during which Christianity provided a framework for shared intellectual, social, and moral life in the West. Before the Protestant Reformation, Western Christianity was an institutionalized worldview laden with expectations of security for earthly societies and hopes of eternal salvation for individuals. The Reformation’s protagonists sought to advance the realization of this vision, not disrupt it. But a complex web of rejections, retentions, and transformations of medieval Christianity gradually replaced the religious fabric that bound societies together in the West. Today, what we are left with are fragments: intellectual disagreements that splinter into ever finer fractals of specialized discourse; a notion that modern science—as the source of all truth—necessarily undermines religious belief; a pervasive resort to a therapeutic vision of religion; a set of smuggled moral values with which we try to fertilize a sterile liberalism; and the institutionalized assumption that only secular universities can pursue knowledge. The Unintended Reformation asks what propelled the West into this trajectory of pluralism and polarization, and finds answers deep in our medieval Christian past.
| Author | : Joel Beeke |
| Publisher | : Crossway |
| Total Pages | : 1061 |
| Release | : 2021-12-01 |
| Genre | : Religion |
| ISBN | : 1433559943 |
"Here is catechesis at its best, instructing the student of theology, providing pastors with a sermon-enriching manual, and giving growing Christians a resource book that will both inform and nourish them, as well as provide endless theological enjoyment!" — Sinclair B. Ferguson, Chancellor's Professor of Systematic Theology, Reformed Theological Seminary; Teaching Fellow, Ligonier Ministries The aim of systematic theology is to engage not only the head but also the heart and hands. Only recently has the church compartmentalized these aspects of life—separating the academic discipline of theology from the spiritual disciplines of faith and obedience. This multivolume work brings together rigorous historical and theological scholarship with spiritual disciplines and practical insights—characterized by a simple, accessible, comprehensive, Reformed, and experiential approach. In this volume, Joel R. Beeke and Paul M. Smalley unpack the work and role of the Holy Spirit (Pneumatology) and salvation (soteriology). The authors examine the Holy Spirit's role in the history of salvation, the order of salvation, and the believers' experience of salvation. As readers consider the interrelationship between the Spirit and salvation, they are invited to explore the direct activity of the Lord in their lives for their salvation.
| Author | : Mr Jason Zuidema |
| Publisher | : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd. |
| Total Pages | : 272 |
| Release | : 2013-07-28 |
| Genre | : Religion |
| ISBN | : 1409482154 |
Reminding us that the Genevan Reformation does not begin and end with John Calvin, this book provides an introduction to Guillaume Farel (1489-1565), one of several important yet often overlooked French-speaking reformers. Born in 1489 near Gap, France, Farel was an important first-generation French-speaking Reformer and one of the most influential early leaders of the Reform movement in what is now French-speaking Switzerland. Educated in Paris, he slowly began to question Catholic orthodoxy, and by the 1520s was an active protestant preacher, resulting in his exile to Switzerland. Part of Farel's aggressive work in this area brought him to Geneva several times, where in 1535 and 1536 he secured votes in favour of the Reform, and later in 1536 persuaded the young theologian John Calvin to stay. Farel also penned Geneva's confession of faith of that year and their ecclesiastical articles of the next. As such, this volume underlines the fact that Calvin entered the reform movement in Geneva in a situation in which Farel had been already deeply involved. To better understand that situation, the book is divided into two parts. The first provides a rich and nuanced portrait of Farel's early thought by way of interpretive essays; the second section offers translations of a number of Farel's key texts. These translations include some of the first widely-accessible full-length translations of Farel's work into English. Offering both a scholarly overview of Farel and his life, and access to his own words, this book demonstrates the importance of Farel to the Reformation. It will be welcomed not only by scholars engaged in research on French reform movements, but also by students of history, theology, or literature wishing to read some of the earliest theological texts originally written in French.
