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The Evangelical Repository - Softcover

Adamson Lang

 
9780461597448: The Evangelical Repository

Synopsis

The Evangelical Repositorypresents a nineteenth-century evangelical theological miscellany that blends verse-by-verse expositions, sermon-like essays, polemics, and book notices. Its aims are canonical, exhortational, and polemical: to affirm biblical authority, defend evangelical orthodoxy, and stimulate personal piety and revival within a Scottish/British evangelical context. The volume assembles doctrinal expositions and pastoral applications alongside biographical sketches, reviews, and brief theological inquiries. Core sections include faith as thinking grounded in divine testimony; Ephraim joined to idols (Hosea 4:17) as a warning against fellowshipping with idolaters and a call to hopeful mercy rather than a determinist doom; a devotional on Psalm 40:17 about God’s infinite, personal thoughts toward believers; verse-by-verse hermeneutics on Melchisedec and Hebrews; Ezekiel 37’s Valley of Dry Bones as a parable of exile and revival; treatises on the knowability of Christ’s love; Christ’s transcendent priesthood and the better covenant in Hebrews; and Hebrews 11’s Substance of Things Hope For. The collection also includes book reviews, a Q&A, and an index, all oriented toward revival, personal holiness, and practical church life amid debates on predestination and the universal gospel.

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