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God, Man, & Salvation
A comprehensive study of the divine-human intersaction.
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First published January 1, 1977
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July 3, 2021
I just finished "God, Man, and Salvation: A Biblical Theology," by W.T. Purkiser, Richard S. Taylor, and Willard H. Taylor.
This is a Nazarene BT I saw footnoted in "Grace, Faith, and Holiness" (Dunning) and had to buy it. Publish date is 1977 (as the crazy dust cover font seems to scream).
The writers, when speaking to the overall biblical theme state that it is "God and man in redemptive relationship..." (p 34). As always I appreciate the relational focus.
This book as a whole is a bit bland until the halfway point which was Christology. There were some bright spots under the Old Testament section of biblical theology. But all in all, the New Testament scholar (one of the Taylors) is a much better writer.
One sentence that caught my attention under OT BT, which spoke about sin, is the following: "Sin never permits the maintenance of a stable plane of character, but is always cumulative in its hardening and depraving effects," p 278.
Moving into NT BT, as stated above, the Christological section was very good. Beginning with the person of Christ the writer did a dive into the titles of Christ which was quite good. He them moved into the work of Christ.
Covering sanctification this wonderful line was written: "Holiness therefore is not a state unrelated to action, and loving is what holiness does. When it ceases to love, it ceases to exist, and shrinks into sterile moralism," p 470. The difference between holiness and moralism is love and that makes worlds of difference.
"A spiritual church, truly apostolic, is a praying church," p 520.
"It is impossible to develope a Christian ethic in abstractions from the cross; to attempt to do so is to produce a moralistic system of sentimental platitudes," p 531.
This book seemed a bit stuffy and theologically conservative in a few spots (sorry my Naz friends, it doesnt sound like more recent Naz books) with bright spots of light shining through here and there. The all too brief chapter on the Kingdom (10 pp) was very good.
And like many books lately this one scored me a footnote-buy (New Testament Theology by Jeremias).
This is a Nazarene BT I saw footnoted in "Grace, Faith, and Holiness" (Dunning) and had to buy it. Publish date is 1977 (as the crazy dust cover font seems to scream).
The writers, when speaking to the overall biblical theme state that it is "God and man in redemptive relationship..." (p 34). As always I appreciate the relational focus.
This book as a whole is a bit bland until the halfway point which was Christology. There were some bright spots under the Old Testament section of biblical theology. But all in all, the New Testament scholar (one of the Taylors) is a much better writer.
One sentence that caught my attention under OT BT, which spoke about sin, is the following: "Sin never permits the maintenance of a stable plane of character, but is always cumulative in its hardening and depraving effects," p 278.
Moving into NT BT, as stated above, the Christological section was very good. Beginning with the person of Christ the writer did a dive into the titles of Christ which was quite good. He them moved into the work of Christ.
Covering sanctification this wonderful line was written: "Holiness therefore is not a state unrelated to action, and loving is what holiness does. When it ceases to love, it ceases to exist, and shrinks into sterile moralism," p 470. The difference between holiness and moralism is love and that makes worlds of difference.
"A spiritual church, truly apostolic, is a praying church," p 520.
"It is impossible to develope a Christian ethic in abstractions from the cross; to attempt to do so is to produce a moralistic system of sentimental platitudes," p 531.
This book seemed a bit stuffy and theologically conservative in a few spots (sorry my Naz friends, it doesnt sound like more recent Naz books) with bright spots of light shining through here and there. The all too brief chapter on the Kingdom (10 pp) was very good.
And like many books lately this one scored me a footnote-buy (New Testament Theology by Jeremias).
November 29, 2012
A clear and organized introduction to Wesleyan Theology.
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