Author: Thomas BostonPublisher:
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Category : Bible
Languages : en
Pages : 40
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The Everlasting Espousals
Author: Thomas BostonThe Marrow of Certainty
Author: Chun TsePublisher: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht
ISBN: 3647560901
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 303
Book Description
Assurance was a central issue for the eminent Scottish theologian-pastor Thomas Boston long before it emerged as a focal point of the theological debate in the Marrow Controversy. In The Marrow of Certainty, Chun Tse presents the first full-length study of Boston's theology of assurance in six dimensions: trinitarian, covenantal, Christological, soteriological, ecclesiastical, and sacramental. This work not only furnishes the first-ever intellectual biography of Boston in his Scottish context and controversies, but it also cross-studies the theology of the Marrow of Modern Divinity with Boston's notes. This research argues that Boston's doctrine of assurance centres on union and communion with Christ, the architectonic principle of his theology. The book challenges the common conception that Boston's theology merely follows Calvin, the Scots Confession, the Marrow, the Westminster Standards, and Scottish federalism. Boston, most strikingly, holds in tension assurance as intrinsic to faith—itself a gift from God's sovereignty in election—while insisting on self-examination as a human responsibility. This salient mark of his doctrine of assurance originates from his assertion that Christ died for the elect alone but all—elect or not—have the warrant to receive Christ. As such, assurance is, theologically, a divine gift and, pastorally, a human endeavour. Certainty is thus both extra nos and intra nos. Boston, this study reveals, has a potent and enduring power to speak on the perennial issue of assurance, rooted in the person of Christ, whom he considers as being the covenant itself.
The Marrow Controversy and Seceder Tradition
Author: William VanDoodewaardPublisher: Reformation Heritage Books
ISBN: 1601783299
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 295
Book Description
After the Reformation, the Marrow Controversy of the eighteenth century is noted as one of the most significant and defining events in the Scottish church. However, until now, there has not been a serious analysis of the theology of the Marrow Men as it relates to churches in Scotland during the aftermath of the controversy. In this important study, William vanDoodewaard identifies characteristic understandings of Marrow theology on the atonement, saving faith, and the free offer of the gospel and traces them out in the theology of the Seceder tradition. In doing so, he presents substantial evidence for the continuity of Marrow theology in the Associate Presbytery and Associate Synod in Scotland during the eighteenth century. He ably demonstrates that while Marrow theology was not the primary cause of the Secession churches, the Seceders were aware of the significance of Marrow theology and consciously made it an integral part of their churches. Table of Contents: Part 1: Views of the Gospel and Its Proclamation: The Era of the Marrow Controversy 1. The Marrow of Modern Divinity and the Marrow Controversy 2. Views of the Gospel and Its Proclamation: Opponents of The Marrow 3. Views of the Gospel and Its Proclamation: Supporters of The Marrow 4. Conclusions on the Doctrine of the Atonement, Saving Faith, and the Gospel Offer during the Marrow Controversy Part 2: Views of the Gospel and Its Proclamation in the Associate Presbytery (1733-1747) and Associate Synod (1747-1799) 5. A Historical Introduction to the Secession Church 6. Historiographical Introduction to the Secession Churches 7. Theological Evidences for the Continuity of Marrow Theology in the Associate Presbytery (1733-1747) 8. The Associate Presbytery, George Whitefield, and the Cambuslang Revival 9. Theological Evidences for the Continuity of Marrow Theology in the Associate Synod: John Swanston to John Fraser (1748-1770)
The Best Match; Or The Soul's Espousal to Christ: Opened and Improved
Author: Edward PearsePublisher:
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Category : Covenant theology
Languages : en
Pages : 256
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The Whole Works of the Late Reverend and Learned Mr. Thomas Boston, Minister of the Gospel at Etterick
Author: Thomas BostonPublisher:
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Category : Presbyterian Church
Languages : en
Pages : 664
Book Description
The Whole Works of the Late Reverend Thomas Boston ... Now First Collected, and Reprinted Without Abridgment; Including His Memoirs, Written by Himself. Edited by the Rev. Samuel McMillan
Author: Thomas BOSTON (the Elder.)Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 512
Book Description
The Whole Works of the late ... Mr. Thomas Boston ... To which is subjoined The Marrow of Modern Divinity (by Edward Fisher), illustrated with ... notes by Mr. Boston. Edited by Alexander Colden and others
Author: Thomas BOSTON (the Elder.)Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 750
Book Description
The Whole Works of the Late Reverend and Learned Mr. Thomas Boston ...
Author: Thomas BostonPublisher:
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Category : Presbyterian Church
Languages : en
Pages : 910
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Novissima, Or, where Do Our Departed Go?
Author: Bernard O'ReillyPublisher:
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Category : Death
Languages : en
Pages : 360
Book Description
The Protestant
Author: William M'GavinPublisher:
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Category : Protestant churches
Languages : en
Pages : 812
Book Description