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The Moravian Church became widely known and respected for its
'missions to the heathen', achieving a high reputation among the
pious and with government. This study looks at its connections with
evangelical networks, and its indirect role in the great debate on
the slave trade, as well as the operations of Moravian missionaries
in the field. The Moravians' decision, in 1764, to expand and
publicise their foreign missions (largely to the British colonies)
coincided with the development of relations between their British
leaders and evangelicals from various denominations, among whom
were those who went on to found, in the last decade of the century,
the major societies which were the cornerstone of the modern
missionary movement. These men were profoundly influenced by the
Moravian Church's apparent progress, unique among Protestants, in
making 'real' Christians among the heathen overseas, and this led
to the adoption of Moravian missionary methods by the new
societies. Dr Mason draws on a wide range of primary documents to
demonstrate the influences of the Moravian Church on the missionary
awakening in England and its contribution to the movement.
John Calvin was born on 10 July 1509. Five hundred years later, the
ideas of this French theologian continue to influence churches all
around the world, and Western culture in general. He has also been
a victim of caricature and misunderstanding, even within his own
lifetime. The contributors to this stimulating volume, linked with
the 2009 Moore College School of Theology, are united by the
conviction that Calvin needs to be heard afresh, understood first
on his own terms and then drawn on as a theological resource for
Christian life and thought today. The essays explore selected
aspects of Calvin's contribution and encourage us to read Calvin
for ourselves and to engage with him as he speaks about the
knowledge of God the Creator and Redeemer, whom he served with a
singular devotion, cannot but mean that we will have our vision of
God expanded and our love for him inflamed. The contributors are
Peter Adam, Michael Jensen, Paul Helm, Robert Doyle, Mark Thompson,
Oliver Crisp, David HAhne, Martin Foord, John McClean, Andrew
Cameron, Peter Jensen and Colin Bale.
The Oxford Handbook of Jonathan Edwards offers a state-of-the-art
summary of scholarship on Edwards by a diverse, international, and
interdisciplinary group of Edwards scholars, many of whom serve as
global leaders in the burgeoning world of research and writing on
'America's theologian'. As an early modern clerical polymath,
Edwards is of interest to historians, theologians, and literary
scholars. He is also an interlocutor for contemporary clergy and
philosophical theologians. All such readers-and many more-will find
here an authoritative overview of Edwards' life, ministry, and
writings, as well as a representative sampling of cutting-edge
scholarship on Edwards from across several disciplines. The volume
falls into four sections, which reflect the diversity of Edwards
studies today. The first section turns to the historical Edwards
and grounds him in his period and the relevant contexts that shaped
his life and work. The second section balances the historical
reconstruction of Edwards as a theological and philosophical
thinker with explorations of his usefulness for constructive
theology and the church today. In part three, the focus shifts to
the different ways and contexts in which Edwards attempted to
realize his ideas and ideals in his personal life, scholarship, and
ministry, but also to the ways in which these historical realities
stood in tension with, limited, or resisted his aspirations. The
final section looks at Edwards' widening renown and influence as
well as diverse appropriations. This Handbook serves as an
authoritative guide for readers overwhelmed by the enormity of the
multi-lingual world of Edwards studies. It will bring readers up to
speed on the most important work being done and then serve them as
a benchmark in the field of Edwards scholarship for decades to
come.
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F. Bruce Gordon
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A revealing new portrait of John Calvin that captures his human
complexity and the sixteenth-century world in which he fought his
personal and theological battles During the glory days of the
French Renaissance, young John Calvin (1509-1564) experienced a
profound conversion to the faith of the Reformation. For the rest
of his days he lived out the implications of that transformation-as
exile, inspired reformer, and ultimately the dominant figure of the
Protestant Reformation. Calvin's vision of the Christian religion
has inspired many volumes of analysis, but this engaging biography
examines a remarkable life. Bruce Gordon presents Calvin as a human
being, a man at once brilliant, arrogant, charismatic, unforgiving,
generous, and shrewd. The book explores with particular insight
Calvin's self-conscious view of himself as prophet and apostle for
his age and his struggle to tame a sense of his own superiority,
perceived by others as arrogance. Gordon looks at Calvin's
character, his maturing vision of God and humanity, his personal
tragedies and failures, his extensive relationships with others,
and the context within which he wrote and taught. What emerges is a
man who devoted himself to the Church, inspiring and transforming
the lives of others, especially those who suffered persecution for
their religious beliefs.
Award-winning essayist Lance Morrow writes about the partnership of
God and Mammon in the New World-about the ways in which Americans
have made money and lost money, and about how they have thought and
obsessed about this peculiarly American subject. Fascinated by the
tracings of theology in the ways of American money Morrow sees a
reconciliation of God and Mammon in the working out of the American
Dream. This sharp-eyed essay reflects upon American money in a
series of individual life stories, including his own. Morrow writes
about what he calls "the emotions of money," which he follows from
the catastrophe of the Great Depression to the era of Bill Gates,
Oprah Winfrey, and Donald Trump. He considers money's dual
character-functioning both as a hard, substantial reality and as a
highly subjective force and shape-shifter, a sort of dream. Is
money the root of all evil? Or is it the source of much good?
Americans have struggled with the problem of how to square the
country's money and power with its aspiration to virtue. Morrow
pursues these themes as they unfold in the lives of Americans both
famous and obscure: Here is Thomas Jefferson, the luminous Founder
who died broke, his fortune in ruin, his estate and slaves at
Monticello to be sold to pay his debts. Here are the Brown brothers
of Providence, Rhode Island, members of the family that founded
Brown University. John Brown was in the slave trade, while his
brother Moses was an ardent abolitionist. With race in America a
powerful subtheme throughout the book, Morrow considers Booker T.
Washington, who, with a cunning that sometimes went unappreciated
among his own people, recognized money as the key to full American
citizenship. God and Mammon is a masterly weaving of America's
money myths, from the nation's beginnings to the present.
In an eloquent defense of Calvinist theology, author and professor
Michael Horton invites us to explore the teachings of
Calvinism-also commonly known as Reformed theology-by showing how
it is biblical and Christ-centered, leading us to live our lives
for the glory of God. The system of theology known as Calvinism has
been immensely influential for the past five hundred years, but
it's often encountered negatively as a fatalistic belief system
that confines human freedom and renders human action and choice
irrelevant. Taking us beyond the caricatures and typical reactions,
For Calvinism: Explores the historical roots of Reformed thought.
Delivers the essence of Calvinism, examining its distinctive
characteristics, such as election, atonement, effectual calling,
and perseverance. Encourages us to consider its rich resources for
faith and practice in the present age. As a companion to Roger
Olson's Against Calvinism critique and response, readers will be
able to compare contrasting perspectives and form their own
opinions on the merits and weaknesses of Calvinism.
This book reconsiders the career of an important, controversial,
but neglected figure in this history of Irish Presbyterianism. The
Revd Isaac Nelson is mostly remembered for his opposition to the
evangelical revival of 1859, but this book demonstrates that there
was much more to Nelson's career. Nelson started out as a protege
of Henry Cooke and as an exemplary young evangelical minister. Upon
aligning himself with the Belfast Anti-Slavery Society and joining
forces with American abolitionists such as Frederick Douglass and
William Lloyd Garrison, Nelson emerged as a powerful voice against
compromise with slaveholders. One of the central objectives of this
book is to show that anti-slavery, especially his involvement with
the 'Send Back the Money' controversy in the Free Church of
Scotland and the debate over fellowship with slaveholders at the
Evangelical Alliance, was crucially important to the development of
Nelson into one of Irish Presbyterianism's most controversial
figures. His later opposition to the 1859 Revival has often been
understood as being indicative of Nelson's opposition to
evangelicalism. This book argues that such a conclusion is mistaken
and that Nelson opposed the Revival as a Presbyterian evangelical.
His later involvement with the Land League and the Irish Home Rule
movement, including his tenure as the Member of Parliament for
County Mayo, could be easily dismissed as an entirely discreditable
affair. While avoiding romantic nostalgia in relation to Nelson's
nationalism, this book argues that Nelson's basis for advocating
Home Rule was not as peculiar as it might first appear.
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.
"Like Augustine, Calvin, and Edwards, Bavinck was a man of giant
mind, vast learning, ageless wisdom, and great expository skill,
and to have these volumes now in full English is a wonderful
enrichment. Solid but lucid, demanding but satisfying, broad and
deep and sharp and stabilizing, Bavinck's magisterial "Reformed
Dogmatics" remains after a century the supreme achievement of its
kind."--J. I. Packer, Regent College
"Finally Bavinck becomes available to the English-speaking
world. The Dutch version has shaped generations of theologians and
helped them to preach, think, and act on a fresh, Reformed basis.
The strength of Bavinck's dogmatics is that it's neither
conservative nor progressive, but its biblical character makes it
constantly up-to-date. Baker Academic and the Dutch Reformed
Translation Society deserve praise for this project, from which
without doubt church and theology will profit for years to
come."--Herman Selderhuis, Theologische Universiteit Appeldoorn
"What a wonderful gift to the English-speaking theological
world! The topics explored by Bavinck are still of the utmost
importance, and he addresses them here in a theological voice that
is amazingly fresh."--Richard J. Mouw, president, Fuller
Theological Seminary
"Pastors and theologians will welcome the historic first
complete translation of Herman Bavinck's "Reformed Dogmatics," . .
. This masterful theological work is now available to passionate
students of theology."--R. Albert Mohler Jr., Preaching
"Arguably the most important systematic theology ever produced
in the Reformed tradition. I have found it to be the most valuable.
English-speaking theology throughout the twentieth century until
now has beensingularly impoverished by not having at its disposal a
translation of Bavinck's "Dogmatiek" in its entirety. The
appearance of this volume will be an incomparable boon for
generations of students, pastors, teachers, and others, serving to
deepen understanding and enrich reflection in both historical and
systematic theology."--Richard B. Gaffin Jr., Westminster
Theological Seminary, Philadelphia
Updated edition of classic introduction to the essential tenets of
Calvinistic theology: its history and content, a biblical defense,
and a guide to further study.
The fascinating story of America's oldest thriving heritage
language. Winner of the Dale W. Brown Book Award by the Young
Center for Anabaptists and Pietist Studies at Elizabethtown College
While most world languages spoken by minority populations are in
serious danger of becoming extinct, Pennsylvania Dutch is thriving.
In fact, the number of Pennsylvania Dutch speakers is growing
exponentially, although it is spoken by less than one-tenth of one
percent of the United States population and has remained for the
most part an oral vernacular without official recognition or
support. A true sociolinguistic wonder, Pennsylvania Dutch has been
spoken continuously since the late eighteenth century despite
having never been "refreshed" by later waves of immigration from
abroad. In this probing study, Mark L. Louden, himself a fluent
speaker of Pennsylvania Dutch, provides readers with a close look
at the place of the language in the life and culture of two major
subgroups of speakers: the "Fancy Dutch," whose ancestors were
affiliated mainly with Lutheran and German Reformed churches, and
traditional Anabaptist sectarians known as the "Plain people"-the
Old Order Amish and Mennonites. Drawing on scholarly literature,
three decades of fieldwork, and ample historical documents-most of
which have never before been made accessible to English-speaking
readers-this is the first book to offer a comprehensive look at
this unlikely linguistic success story.
Recognizing the need for bilingual hymnal and service materials
within Korean Presbyterian congregations, the 207th General
Assembly (1995) of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) mandated the
creation of a resource to meet the needs of local congregations and
to promote authentic Korean compositions and traditional Korean
tunes. This new Korean-English hymnal is now available as a worship
resource for intergenerational, bilingual, and ecumenical use.
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