Download or read book Richard Sibbes God s Spreading Goodness written by R N Frost and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2012-02-01 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: English Puritans of the Stuart era were divided by a number of questions. The greatest of these asked what constitutes salvation and restoration from sin. All agreed that it was by grace through faith. But few could agree on how to define sin, grace, and faith. Richard Sibbes consciously followed Augustine, Martin Luther, and John Calvin in defining sin as self-love and grace as God's redemptive love in Christ. His theology centered on the love of God expressed through Christ and offered by the Spirit; and faith as a response to that love. This produced a winsome and transforming theology of union with Christ and communion with God. In this he was a counterweight to the spread of moralistic Puritan theologies in his day.
Download or read book The Complete Works of Richard Sibbes D D written by Richard Sibbes and published by . This book was released on 1863 with total page 576 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Complete Works of Richard Sibbes written by Richard Sibbes and published by Titus Books. This book was released on 2015-03-20 with total page 6743 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Complete Works of Richard Sibbes is a comprehensive collection of the writings of the influential Puritan theologian and preacher. This volume brings together Sibbes' sermons, treatises, and meditations, offering a rich resource for those interested in Puritan spirituality and theology. Sibbes' works, known for their depth of insight and pastoral wisdom, continue to inspire and guide readers in their spiritual journeys, making this collection a valuable addition to any library of Christian literature. His complete 7-volume works contain the following books: Volume 1 The Description of Christ The Bruised Reed and Smoking Flax The Sword of the Wicked The Soul’s Conflict With Itself, and Victory Over Itself By Faith The Saint’s Safety in Evil Times The Saint’s Safety in Evil Times: Manifested by St Paul, From His Experience of God’s Goodness in Greatest Distresses Christ is Best (or, St. Paul’s Strait) Christ’s Sufferings for Man’s Sin The Church’s Visitation Volume 2 Bowels Opened The Spouse, Her Earnest Desire After Christ A Breathing After God The Returning Backslider The Marriage Feast Between Christ and His Church Volume 3 A Commentary on the First Chapter of the Second Epistle of St Paul to the Corinthians Volume 4 A Christian’s Portion (or, The Christian’s Charter) The Spiritual Man’s Aim The Right Receiving Judgement’s Reason Yea and Amen (or, Precious Promises Laid Open Out of 2 Cor. I. 10-23) A Glance of Heaven (or, A Precious Taste of a Glorious Feast) The Excellency of the Gospel Above the Law Exposition of 2 Corinthians Chapter IV The Church’s Riches Volume 5 The Christian Work Of the Providence of God An Exposition of the Third Chapter of the Epistle of St Paul to the Philippians The Redemption of Bodies The Art of Contentment The Power of Christ’s Resurrection The Hidden Life The Spiritual Jubilee The Privileges of the Faithful The Christian’s End Christ’s Exaltation Purchased by Humiliation The Life of Faith Salvation Applied A Fountain Sealed The Fountain Opened; Or, the Mystery of Godliness Revealed Volume 6 The Faithful Covenanter Josiah’s Reformation The Spiritual Favourite at the Throne of Grace The Successful Seeker A Rescue From Death, With a Return of Praise The Saint’s Comforts: An Exposition Upon Psalm CXXX The Church’s Complaint and Confidence God’s Inquisition The Rich Poverty; or, the Poor Man’s Riches Spiritual Mourning Violence Victorious Angels’ Acclamations The Fruitful Labour for Eternal Food The Matchless Love and Inbeing A Heavenly Conference King David’s Epitaph Lydia’s Conversion The Bridegroom’s Promises, and the Bride’s Prayer Volume 7 Balaam’s Wish The Unprosperous Builder The Vanity of the Creature Discouragement’s Recovery The Saint’s Happiness David’s Conclusion; or the Saint’s Resolution The Church’s Blackness Miracle of Miracles The Touchstone of Regeneration The Discreet Ploughman The Matchless Mercy The Sun of Righteousness Divine Meditations and Holy Contemplations The Knot of Prayer Loosed The Rich Pearl Sin’s Antidote The Success of the Gospel Mary’s Choice The Christian’s Watch The Coming of Christ The General Resurrection Sibbes’s Last Two Sermons; From Christ’s Last Sermon The Saint’s Privilege The Witness of Salvation Saint Paul’s Challenge The Dead Man The Danger of Backsliding Faith Triumphant The Ruin of Mystical Jericho The Demand of a Good Conscience A Glimpse of Glory The Pattern of Purity The Beast’s Dominion Over Earthly Kings The Church’s Echo
Download or read book The Knowledge of God Essays on God Christ and Church written by Michael Allen and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2022-01-13 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Knowledge of God turns to consider the knowledge of God revealed in the Word of God, with several essays addressing the doctrine of God, then the person of Christ, and finally the miracle of the church. Michael Allen shows the exegetical shape of historical and dogmatic reasoning as well as the significance of thinking about these topics in their interrelationships with a range of other Christian themes, not least the doctrine of the living and true God. In each of these topics, the theme of the promise and nature of God's presence (whether in his own life or then in the economy of the incarnation and of the church) proves to be a unifying thread. The gospel is shown to be rooted backward in God's own life and to have consequence forward for the ongoing life of Christ displayed in his church. This volume explores what it means to learn of and come to know God, who has life in himself and then shares his life with us in the coming of his Son and the ongoing presence amidst his body, the church of Christ.
Download or read book Justification and the Gospel written by R. Michael Allen and published by Baker Academic. This book was released on 2013-11-19 with total page 295 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Seeking to move beyond current heated debates on justification, this accessible introduction offers a fresh, alternative approach to a central theological topic. Michael Allen locates justification within the wider context of the gospel, allowing for more thoughtful engagement with the Bible, historical theology, and the life of the church. Allen considers some of the liveliest recent debates as well as some overlooked connections within the wider orbit of Christian theology. He provides a historically informed, ecumenically minded defense of orthodox theology, analyzing what must be maintained and what should be reconfigured from the vantage point of systematic theology. The book exemplifies the practice of theological interpretation of Scripture and demonstrates justification's relevance for ongoing issues of faith and practice.
Download or read book Christology Ancient and Modern written by Oliver D. Crisp and published by Zondervan Academic. This book was released on 2013-10-22 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Fresh Look at the Doctrine of Christ. Christology was the central doctrine articulated by the early church councils, and it remains the subject of close theological investigation today. Christology, Ancient and Modern—the first volume in a series of published proceedings from the annual Los Angeles Theology Conference—brings together conference proceedings, surveying the field and articulating the sources, norms, and criteria for constructive theological work in Christology. The ten diverse essays in this collection include discussions on: The types of historical Christologies and evaluations of various approaches to the theology of Christ. A close look at the trajectory and divergence of modern denominational understandings of Christ's work and person. Discussions of implications and challenges to specific Christologies regarding detailed exegetical considerations. Each of the essays collected in this volume engage with Scripture as well as with others in the field—theologians both past and present, from different confessions—in order to provide constructive resources for contemporary systematic theology and to forge a theology for the future.
Download or read book Delighting in the Trinity written by Michael Reeves and published by InterVarsity Press. This book was released on 2012-07-18 with total page 145 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this brief and winsome book, Michael Reeves presents an introduction to the Christian faith that is rooted in the triune God. He takes cues from preachers and teachers down through the ages, setting key doctrines of creation, the person and work of Christ, and life in the Spirit into a simple framework of the Christian life.
Download or read book The Bruised Reed and Smoking Flax written by Richard Sibbes and published by . This book was released on 1878 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Rhetoric of Conversion in English Puritan Writing from Perkins to Milton written by David Parry and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2021-12-30 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This rhetorical study of the persuasive practice of English Puritan preachers and writers demonstrates how they appeal to both reason and imagination in order to persuade their hearers and readers towards conversion, assurance of salvation and godly living. Examining works from a diverse range of preacher-writers such as William Perkins, Richard Sibbes, Richard Baxter and John Bunyan, this book maps out continuities and contrasts in the theory and practice of persuasion. Tracing the emergence of Puritan allegory as an alternative, imaginative mode of rhetoric, it sheds new light on the paradoxical question of how allegories such as John Bunyan's The Pilgrim's Progress came to be among the most significant contributions of Puritanism to the English literary canon, despite the suspicions of allegory and imagination that were endemic in Puritan culture. Concluding with reflections on how Milton deploys similar strategies to persuade his readers towards his idiosyncratic brand of godly faith, this book makes an original contribution to current scholarly conversations around the textual culture of Puritanism, the history of rhetoric, and the rhetorical character of theology.
Download or read book The Devoted Life written by Kelly M. Kapic and published by InterVarsity Press. This book was released on 2004-10-22 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Notable scholars like Mark Noll and Sinclair Ferguson invite you to sit at the feet of classic Puritain writers to experience a living, three-dimensional portrait of the devoted life that emphasizes the Christian experience of communion with God, corporate revival, biblical preaching and the sanctifying working of God's Holy Spirit. Edited by Kelly M. Kapic and Randall C. Gleason.
Download or read book Grounded in Heaven written by Michael Allen and published by Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing. This book was released on 2018-10-02 with total page 205 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Eschatology and ethics are joined at the hip, says Michael Allen, and both need theocentric reorientation. In Grounded in Heaven Allen retrieves the traditional concept of the beatific vision and seeks to bring Christ back into the heart of our theology and our lives on earth. Responding to the earthly-mindedness of much recent theology, Allen places his focus on God and the heavenly future while also appreciating ways in which the Reformed tradition provides a unique angle on broadly catholic concerns. Reaching back to classical ethics as well as its reformation by Calvin and other Reformed theologians, Grounded in Heaven offers a distinctly Protestant account of the ascetical calling to be heavenly-minded and to deny one’s self.
Download or read book The Good God written by Michael Reeves and published by Authentic Media Inc. This book was released on 2012-03-01 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a very accessible way Michael Reeves writes about God as Trinity in order for both our understanding and faith to grow. In The Good God, Michael Reeves writes about growing in our enjoyment of God and seeing how God's triune being makes all his ways beautiful. He sees it as a chance to taste and see that the Lord is good, to have our hearts won and ourselves refreshed.
Download or read book Protestants and Mysticism in Reformation Europe written by Ronald K. Rittgers and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2019-03-25 with total page 473 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Protestants and Mysticism in Reformation Europe, edited by Ronald K. Rittgers and Vincent Evener, is a research handbook on the Protestant reception of mysticism, from the beginnings of the Reformation through the mid-seventeenth century.
Download or read book Jonathan Edwards on Justification written by Hyun-Jin Cho and published by University Press of America. This book was released on 2012 with total page 163 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jonathan Edwards (1703-1758) was a preacher, theologian, and missionary to the Native Americans. This book deals with Jonathan Edwards' doctrine of justification and its continuity with Reformed tradition. In his Reformed Theology, Edwards interprets the doctrine with scholastic as well as forensic terms such as "disposition," "habit," and "fitness." Due to his use of these concepts, some scholars suspect that he had a quasi-Roman Catholic view of salvation. According to them, Edwards' use of the terms indicates the intrinsic renovation or inherent righteousness of a saint. Contrary to this suspicion, Jonathan Edwards on Justification demonstrates that Edwards stands firmly on the Reformed tradition in the doctrine of justification. In this book, Hyun-Jin Cho presents a historical study on the theological connection between Edwards and his Reformed forebears. Based on Edwards' dispositional ontology, the concept of "dispositional transformation" with the Holy Spirit becomes an important theoretical foundation of his doctrine of justification. Cho discusses Edwards' attempts to explain his doctrine of justification in terms of disposition and its effects.
Download or read book Works of Richard Sibbes written by Richard Sibbes and published by Banner of Truth. This book was released on 2001 with total page 584 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Josiah's Reformation; The Saint's Comforts; The Rich Poverty, or The Poor Man's Riches; and several other sermons, including The Bride's Longing (on Rev. 22:20).
Download or read book A Golden Chain written by William Perkins and published by Tulip Publishing. This book was released on 2021-02-22 with total page 407 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Written by William Perkins (1558-1602), A Golden Chain is one of the best treatments of the doctrines of election and reprobation ever written. Due to its controversial nature, it is one of the few significant and influential works written by a Puritan which has not been widely republished as a standalone version. In this version of A Golden Chain, transcribed from the 1597 edition of Perkins' work, it has been lightly abridged and modernised with simplified language and new structural diagrams. This release will also include a brief introduction to both Perkins' life and work written by Perkins scholar, Matthew Payne.
Download or read book Evangelical Calvinism written by Myk Habets and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2017-05-04 with total page 438 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Continuing the discussion initiated in volume one, volume two of Evangelical Calvinism further articulates the central motifs of this mood within Reformed theology by examining themes having to do with dogmatics and devotion. After further clarifying the methodological and dogmatic aspects common to an Evangelical Calvinism, the heart of the present volume is an explication of the vicarious ministry of Christ as it is worked out in its diverse theological dimensions. The volume offers constructive accounts of various aspects of liturgy, sacraments, and doxology, showing the vitality and lived spirituality of this Christian vision of faith and practice. Both advocates and critics of Evangelical Calvinism now have an extended and thorough body of work with which to interact. As with volume 1, this volume promises to set the agenda for contemporary and constructive Reformed studies in a way that provides an alternative to neo-Calvinism and Westminster Calvinism alike.
