The Doctrine of Scripture: The Reformers and the Princeton School

by Thomas Martin Lindsay

Excerpt from The Doctrine of Scripture

Gives us mainly information which can be worked up into doctrines, is certainly free from the corresponding formal thought that man is saved by assenting to the gospel stated in the form of propositions. Yet the two ideas are corre lative, and the logical consequence of thrusting the personal element in Scripture into the background is the presentation of Christ in the form of a doctrine rather than of a personal Saviour, and the transformation of faith into assent to a proposition instead of personal trust in a personal Saviour....

37 pages, Hardcover

Published August 24, 2018

About the author

Thomas M. Lindsay was born in 1843 in Lanarkshire, Scotland. He was educated at the Universities of Glasgow and Edinburgh. In 1872 he became a Professor of Church History in the Free Church College, Glasgow, where he later became Principal. Lindsay was highly regarded as an historian of the Reformation period and he wrote a two-volume History of the Reformation in Europe. He died in 1914.