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Chargement... The Forgotten Spurgeonpar Iain H. Murray
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Inscrivez-vous à LibraryThing pour découvrir si vous aimerez ce livre Actuellement, il n'y a pas de discussions au sujet de ce livre. This addresses three controversies across Spurgeon's ministry: Calvinism v Arminianism, baptismal regeneration, and the Down-Grade (liberalism) issue at the end of his career. It is an interesting read, but not compelling. ( ) A game changing book for me. Murray's chapter on Spurgeon's two-sided kind of Calvinism made sense of God's foreknowledge but also human responsibility. Not hyper-Calvinism which lays all emphasis on God's action nor Arminianism whch stresses the ethical requirement of human response but, like the rails of a railway track, two truths whch are not reconciled in Scripture and yet are insisted upon throughout. A mystery to tempt humans to resolve on one side or the other. Click! Click! so stimulating. I felt like I d been inducted into a huge secret. Not sure if there I read the story of the door which says invitingly, Whosoever will may come, but which, upon entering and looking back, the other side reads, Known from the foundation of the world. In any event, whether in Murray or elsewhere, the door story encapsulates the Bible's teaching in a way that shows both "sides." If you will. aucune critique | ajouter une critique
This book seeks to throw light on the reasons which have given rise to the superficial image of Spurgeon as a genial Victorian pulpiteer, a kind of grandfather of modern evangelicalism. Even before his death in 1892 newspapers and church leaders disputed over the features of his life which entitled him to fame. Not his 'narrow creed' but his 'genuine loving character' was most worthy of remembrance said one periodical, echoing the general view. When Joseph Parker contrasted the hard Calvinism preached at Spurgeon's Tabernacle with the praiseworthy Christianity exemplified in his orphanage, The Baptist protested that the man about whom Parker wrote 'is not the Spurgeon of history'. But the distortion continued and Spurgeon forecast how the position he held might fare in years to come: 'I am quite willing to be eaten by dogs for the next fifty years but the more distant future shall vindicate me'. This book traces the main lines of Spurgeon's spiritual thought in connection with the three great controversies in his ministry-the first was his stand against the diluted gospel fashionable in the London to which the young preacher came in the 1850's; the second, the famous 'Baptismal Regeneration' debate of 1864; lastly, the lacerating Down-Grade controversy of 1887-1891 when Spurgeon sought to awaken Christians to the danger of the Church 'being buried beneath the boiling mud-showers of modern heresy'. Book jacket. Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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