The contents of this convicting book are from Finney's unpublished
lecture notes. Topics include personal qualifications for the study
of theology, advantages gained from this study, things to be
avoided, primary and secondary departments of the mind,
immortality, rules of evidence, proofs for the existence of God,
natural and moral attributes of God. In teaching theology, it is no
part of my design merely to lecture to you, and help you to truth
without your own efforts. This would do you little good, nay, it
might greatly injure you. I would merely help you to study, help
you when you endeavor to help yourselves; suggest to stimulate and
guide your efforts rather than dispense with them. . . . Take care
that you keep your hearts with all diligence, and that your hearts
keep pace with your intellectual improvement. If you do not make a
self-application of the truth as fast as you learn it, if you do
not obey it, it will ultimately blind instead of enlighten you. You
must live up to your convictions, or the study of theology will
greatly and fatally harden you. Therefore be careful that you
grieve not, resist not, quench not the Holy Spirit. Study on your
knees. Go to God with every position that is established, and pray
him to write the truth in your heart; and rest not till it be
adopted by you as your own, as a truth to influence you, to have
dominion over you; and as these truths are developed in your
intellect one after the other, and established, let it be settled
that in the midst of them, and in conformity with them, you are to
live and move and have your being. If you do this the study of
theology will make you a mellow, anointed, devoted, useful man of
God; if you do it not, you will become hardened and reprobate. And
of all the reprobate minds in existence, they seem to be the most
hardened who have studied theology and gone through the course of
theology without receiving the truth into their hearts. CHARLES G.
FINNEY (1792-1875) was America's foremost evangelist. Over half a
million people were soundly converted under his personal ministry
in a day when there was no TV or microphones. He was also an
excellent theologian, philosopher, educator, pastor and reformer
while professor of theology and president of Oberlin College.
Harvard's Perry Miller said, "Finney led America out of the
eighteenth century." He is remembered, according to Harvard's W. G.
McLoughlin, for his "textbook on how to promote revivals of
religion. This book is the perennial classic to which all
succeeding generations of revivalists have turned for authority and
inspiration." He was also a father to the evangelical and holiness
movements.
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