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Grand Rapids, MI: Zondervan Publishing House, 1937.
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105, 157, 114, 115, 95 p.; 19 cm
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CONTENTS FOR VOLUMES 1 - 5.
The Lamb of God Series. Grand Rapids, MI: Zondervan Publishing House, 1937.
Volume 1: Behold Him!
CHAP. I. THE HISTORICAL JESUS.
The Humble Beginning.
Remarkable Continuance.
—Contemporaneous Non-Christian References.
—The Christian Literature.
The Bodily Resurrection of Christ.
1. The Modern Evidence.
a. The Christian Book
b. The Christian Movement.
c. The Christian Day of Worship.
d. The Christian Experience.
2. The Ancient Evidence.
a. Tatian, Justin, Irenaeus, the Diatessaron.
b. The New Testament Records.
c. Saint Paul, Saul of Tarsus.
d. On the Day of Pentecost.
3. Inferences and Consequences.
CHAP, II. THE LAMB OF GOD.
The Sacrificial Lamb.
The Deity of Christ.
1. Son of God.
2. Two Natures.
3. History of the Doctrine.
4. God Manifest in the Flesh.
5. Temporary Subordination.
6. The Lord’s Self-Consciousness.
The Virgin Birth.
1. Explains the Incarnation.
2. Unique in Religious Literature.
3. Testimony of Scripture.
CHAP. III. THE AUTHORITATIVE RECORD.
Why We Believe the Bible to be Infallible.
1. The Witness of the Spirit.
2. Effect upon Human Lives.
3. Biblical Prophecy.
4. Coherence with Truth in General.
5. Negative Results of Critical Investigations.
The Nature of the Authority.
1. Perspicuity.
2. Immediacy.
The Mode of Inspiration.
The Extent of the Inspiration.
1. Infallibility.
2. Verbal Inerrancy.
Importance of the Doctrine.
Volume 2: What is God?
CHAP. I. A SCRIPTURAL DEFINITION OF GOD.
Definition of Theism.
Approach to the Subject.
1. GOD IS A SPIRIT.
a. Not the Cosmic Flux.
b. Not the Social Consciousness.
c. Not the World Soul.
d. Not a Personification.
e. Definition of Personality.
2. INFINITE.
a. In Power, in Time, and in Space.
3. ETERNAL.
a. Definitions.
b. Not a Timeless Form of Existence.
4. UNCHANGEABLE.
a. Figures of Speech.
b. Not Mathematical Changelessness.
5. IN HIS BEING.
a. A Being, Not an Idea.
b. Not a Physical Substance.
6. WISDOM.
a. Intelligence.
b. Jonathan Edwards.
c. Charles Hodge.
d. Prayer.
7. POWER.
a. God’s Nature and God’s Will.
b. Ethical Implications.
c. Foreknowledge and Grace.
d. Answer Number One.
e. Answer Number Two.
f. The Value of Volition.
8. HOLINESS.
a. The Basis of Justice and Goodness.
9. JUSTICE.
a. Eternal Punishment.
10. GOODNESS.
a. Salvation by a Substitute.
11. TRUTH.
a. What is Truth?
b. The Truth of God and the Purity of the Church.
CHAP. II. THE TRINITY.
I. GOD IS ONE.
a. Trinitarian Hints in the Old Testament.
II. JESUS IS GOD.
III. THE HOLY SPIRIT IS GOD.
IV. THESE THREE PERSONS ARE SUBJECT-OBJECT, EACH TO THE OTHERS.
ILLUSTRATIONS.
VALUE OF THE DOCTRINE.
a. In Problems of Philosophy.
b. In the Doctrine of the Atonement.
c. In the Doctrine of our Divine Sonship.
CHAP. III. FIVE QUESTIONS ANSWERED.
I. WHAT IS THE EXPLANATION OF THE UNIVERSE?
a. Is the Physical World Self-Existent?
b. Unconscious Intelligence.
b1. Opposition to Materialistic Evolution.
b2. Opposition to Conscious Intelligence.
c. God the Answer to the Cosmic Question.
d. False Statement of Cosmological Argument.
e. Summary.
II. WHAT IS THE EXPLANATION OF DESIGN OR PURPOSE?
a. Materialism.
b. Pantheism.
c. Theistic Evolution.
d. The Theological Argument.
III. WHAT IS THE EXPLANATION OF MAN?
a. An Objection Answered.
IV. WHAT IS THE EXPLANATION OF . . . IDEAS?
V. WHAT IS THE EXPLANATION OF MORALITY?
a. Hedonism.
b. Adjustment.
c. Perfectionism.
d. Summary of Paradoxes.
e. True Sense of Direction.
Volume 3: Sin and Atonement.
CHAP. I. THE SIN OF THE WORLD.
a. The Holy Spirit Brings Conviction.
b. Definition of Sin.
c. Sin Not Only in Conscious Action.
d. Sin in Human Nature.
(1) Judicial Penalty.
(2) Hereditary Corruption.
(3) Christ Removes Hereditary Guilt.
(4) Hereditary Sin: A Warning.
e. Involuntary Sin.
f. Sin is Sin.
g. Conscious, Voluntary Sin.
(1) The Moral Choice, Progressive and Permanent.
h. The Old Hymns.
CHAP. II. THE ATONEMENT.
a. History of the Doctrine.
(1) Patristic Theory.
(2) Theory of Supererogation.
(3) Governmental Theory.
(4) Moral Influence Theory.
(5) Substition.
(6) A Freshman Experience.
(7) Forgiveness and Substitution.
(8) A Third Party?
b. Sin Must Fall Upon the Sinner.
(1) Restitution.
(2) Penalty.
(3) Vindication.
(4) Justice without Mercy.
(5) Forgiveness.
(6) Calvary.
(7) An Application.
CHAP. III. HOW DOES THE ATONEMENT APPLY TO US?
a. Only Believe.
b. Divine Judgment Upon Works.
c. Accepting Christ, Process, Crisis and Finality.
d. Perseverance of the Saints.
e. How Can Sinners Believe?
f. Luther’s Sermon.
g. The Natural Man.
Volume 4: The Christian Life.
CHAP. I. THE UNITY OF THE REDEMPTIVE PLAN. (1)
II. Corinthians, Chapter Three.
a. What Was the Glory in the Face of Moses?
b. In What Respect Done Away?
c. The Veil.
Romans, Chapter Ten.
a. Christ the Purpose of the Law.
b. Moses—Legal Righteousness.
c. Moses—Righteousness by Faith.
CHAP. II. THE UNITY OF THE REDEMPTIVE PLAN. (2)
Galatians, Chapter Three.
a. A Flank Movement.
b. The Law Is Not of Faith.
c. Is God a Forger?
d. Why Is the Law?
e. Before Faith Came.
f. The Law a Servant.
On Legal Ground?
a. Luke 10:25-28.
b. Mark 10:17-22.
c. Luke 18:9-14.
d. Mark 10: 17-22.
e. Matthew 6:8-15.
f. Luke 11:14.
CHAP. III. RULES OF CHRISTIAN CONDUCT.
The Practice of the Christian Life.
Ethics in Ephesians.
a. The Climax of the Epistle.
b. Many Detailed Teachings.
c. Worldly Amusements.
d. The Christian Armour.
Moral Questions Not Explicitly Discussed in the Scriptures.
a. Strong Drink.
b. Christian Liberties.
Ethical Problems in the Non-Christian World.
CHAP. IV. THE PROGRESS OF THE CHRISTIAN LIFE.
The Old Character.
The Work of the Holy Spirit.
a. In the Unsaved World.
b. In the Initial Work of Grace.
c. In the Christian Life.
d. Be Filled with the Spirit.
e. The Inheritance and the Seal.
Victory.
Volume 5: Unfulfilled Prophecies
I. TEMPORAL VINDICATION OF GOD’S CREATIVE PURPOSE.
The Visible World and the Invisible God.
God in Visible History.
The Vindication of God’s Creative Purpose.
Twofold Vindication.
1. Present Spiritual Blessings.
2. Eventual or Chronological Vindication.
The Future Age Comes Cataclysmically.
The Reformed Theology and the Cataclysmic View.
Importance of This View.
II. OUTSTANDING EVENTS IN THE CHRONOLOGICAL VINDICATION.
1. The Bodily Resurrection of Christ.
2. The Visible Bodily Return of Christ.
3. The Resurrection of the Body.
4. The Millennium.
The Final State Not Timeless.
What is the Kingdom of Christ?
III. OUTSTANDING MILLENNIAL SCRIPTURES.
The Teachings of Our Lord.
The Kingdom Period in First Corinthians, Chapter 15.
The First Order of Resurrection.
The Second Order.
The Third Order.
Revelation Chapter 20.
The Resurrection of the Redeemed.
The Throne in the Clouds.
The Ezekiel-Mosaic Ritual.
The Perfect Age and the Final Apostasy.
The Last Enemy—Death.
The New Heavens and the New Earth.
The Nearer View of Eventualities.
Appendix Note on Revelation, Chapter 20.
The Lamb of God Series. Grand Rapids, MI: Zondervan Publishing House, 1937.
Volume 1: Behold Him!
CHAP. I. THE HISTORICAL JESUS.
The Humble Beginning.
Remarkable Continuance.
—Contemporaneous Non-Christian References.
—The Christian Literature.
The Bodily Resurrection of Christ.
1. The Modern Evidence.
a. The Christian Book
b. The Christian Movement.
c. The Christian Day of Worship.
d. The Christian Experience.
2. The Ancient Evidence.
a. Tatian, Justin, Irenaeus, the Diatessaron.
b. The New Testament Records.
c. Saint Paul, Saul of Tarsus.
d. On the Day of Pentecost.
3. Inferences and Consequences.
CHAP, II. THE LAMB OF GOD.
The Sacrificial Lamb.
The Deity of Christ.
1. Son of God.
2. Two Natures.
3. History of the Doctrine.
4. God Manifest in the Flesh.
5. Temporary Subordination.
6. The Lord’s Self-Consciousness.
The Virgin Birth.
1. Explains the Incarnation.
2. Unique in Religious Literature.
3. Testimony of Scripture.
CHAP. III. THE AUTHORITATIVE RECORD.
Why We Believe the Bible to be Infallible.
1. The Witness of the Spirit.
2. Effect upon Human Lives.
3. Biblical Prophecy.
4. Coherence with Truth in General.
5. Negative Results of Critical Investigations.
The Nature of the Authority.
1. Perspicuity.
2. Immediacy.
The Mode of Inspiration.
The Extent of the Inspiration.
1. Infallibility.
2. Verbal Inerrancy.
Importance of the Doctrine.
Volume 2: What is God?
CHAP. I. A SCRIPTURAL DEFINITION OF GOD.
Definition of Theism.
Approach to the Subject.
1. GOD IS A SPIRIT.
a. Not the Cosmic Flux.
b. Not the Social Consciousness.
c. Not the World Soul.
d. Not a Personification.
e. Definition of Personality.
2. INFINITE.
a. In Power, in Time, and in Space.
3. ETERNAL.
a. Definitions.
b. Not a Timeless Form of Existence.
4. UNCHANGEABLE.
a. Figures of Speech.
b. Not Mathematical Changelessness.
5. IN HIS BEING.
a. A Being, Not an Idea.
b. Not a Physical Substance.
6. WISDOM.
a. Intelligence.
b. Jonathan Edwards.
c. Charles Hodge.
d. Prayer.
7. POWER.
a. God’s Nature and God’s Will.
b. Ethical Implications.
c. Foreknowledge and Grace.
d. Answer Number One.
e. Answer Number Two.
f. The Value of Volition.
8. HOLINESS.
a. The Basis of Justice and Goodness.
9. JUSTICE.
a. Eternal Punishment.
10. GOODNESS.
a. Salvation by a Substitute.
11. TRUTH.
a. What is Truth?
b. The Truth of God and the Purity of the Church.
CHAP. II. THE TRINITY.
I. GOD IS ONE.
a. Trinitarian Hints in the Old Testament.
II. JESUS IS GOD.
III. THE HOLY SPIRIT IS GOD.
IV. THESE THREE PERSONS ARE SUBJECT-OBJECT, EACH TO THE OTHERS.
ILLUSTRATIONS.
VALUE OF THE DOCTRINE.
a. In Problems of Philosophy.
b. In the Doctrine of the Atonement.
c. In the Doctrine of our Divine Sonship.
CHAP. III. FIVE QUESTIONS ANSWERED.
I. WHAT IS THE EXPLANATION OF THE UNIVERSE?
a. Is the Physical World Self-Existent?
b. Unconscious Intelligence.
b1. Opposition to Materialistic Evolution.
b2. Opposition to Conscious Intelligence.
c. God the Answer to the Cosmic Question.
d. False Statement of Cosmological Argument.
e. Summary.
II. WHAT IS THE EXPLANATION OF DESIGN OR PURPOSE?
a. Materialism.
b. Pantheism.
c. Theistic Evolution.
d. The Theological Argument.
III. WHAT IS THE EXPLANATION OF MAN?
a. An Objection Answered.
IV. WHAT IS THE EXPLANATION OF . . . IDEAS?
V. WHAT IS THE EXPLANATION OF MORALITY?
a. Hedonism.
b. Adjustment.
c. Perfectionism.
d. Summary of Paradoxes.
e. True Sense of Direction.
Volume 3: Sin and Atonement.
CHAP. I. THE SIN OF THE WORLD.
a. The Holy Spirit Brings Conviction.
b. Definition of Sin.
c. Sin Not Only in Conscious Action.
d. Sin in Human Nature.
(1) Judicial Penalty.
(2) Hereditary Corruption.
(3) Christ Removes Hereditary Guilt.
(4) Hereditary Sin: A Warning.
e. Involuntary Sin.
f. Sin is Sin.
g. Conscious, Voluntary Sin.
(1) The Moral Choice, Progressive and Permanent.
h. The Old Hymns.
CHAP. II. THE ATONEMENT.
a. History of the Doctrine.
(1) Patristic Theory.
(2) Theory of Supererogation.
(3) Governmental Theory.
(4) Moral Influence Theory.
(5) Substition.
(6) A Freshman Experience.
(7) Forgiveness and Substitution.
(8) A Third Party?
b. Sin Must Fall Upon the Sinner.
(1) Restitution.
(2) Penalty.
(3) Vindication.
(4) Justice without Mercy.
(5) Forgiveness.
(6) Calvary.
(7) An Application.
CHAP. III. HOW DOES THE ATONEMENT APPLY TO US?
a. Only Believe.
b. Divine Judgment Upon Works.
c. Accepting Christ, Process, Crisis and Finality.
d. Perseverance of the Saints.
e. How Can Sinners Believe?
f. Luther’s Sermon.
g. The Natural Man.
Volume 4: The Christian Life.
CHAP. I. THE UNITY OF THE REDEMPTIVE PLAN. (1)
II. Corinthians, Chapter Three.
a. What Was the Glory in the Face of Moses?
b. In What Respect Done Away?
c. The Veil.
Romans, Chapter Ten.
a. Christ the Purpose of the Law.
b. Moses—Legal Righteousness.
c. Moses—Righteousness by Faith.
CHAP. II. THE UNITY OF THE REDEMPTIVE PLAN. (2)
Galatians, Chapter Three.
a. A Flank Movement.
b. The Law Is Not of Faith.
c. Is God a Forger?
d. Why Is the Law?
e. Before Faith Came.
f. The Law a Servant.
On Legal Ground?
a. Luke 10:25-28.
b. Mark 10:17-22.
c. Luke 18:9-14.
d. Mark 10: 17-22.
e. Matthew 6:8-15.
f. Luke 11:14.
CHAP. III. RULES OF CHRISTIAN CONDUCT.
The Practice of the Christian Life.
Ethics in Ephesians.
a. The Climax of the Epistle.
b. Many Detailed Teachings.
c. Worldly Amusements.
d. The Christian Armour.
Moral Questions Not Explicitly Discussed in the Scriptures.
a. Strong Drink.
b. Christian Liberties.
Ethical Problems in the Non-Christian World.
CHAP. IV. THE PROGRESS OF THE CHRISTIAN LIFE.
The Old Character.
The Work of the Holy Spirit.
a. In the Unsaved World.
b. In the Initial Work of Grace.
c. In the Christian Life.
d. Be Filled with the Spirit.
e. The Inheritance and the Seal.
Victory.
Volume 5: Unfulfilled Prophecies
I. TEMPORAL VINDICATION OF GOD’S CREATIVE PURPOSE.
The Visible World and the Invisible God.
God in Visible History.
The Vindication of God’s Creative Purpose.
Twofold Vindication.
1. Present Spiritual Blessings.
2. Eventual or Chronological Vindication.
The Future Age Comes Cataclysmically.
The Reformed Theology and the Cataclysmic View.
Importance of This View.
II. OUTSTANDING EVENTS IN THE CHRONOLOGICAL VINDICATION.
1. The Bodily Resurrection of Christ.
2. The Visible Bodily Return of Christ.
3. The Resurrection of the Body.
4. The Millennium.
The Final State Not Timeless.
What is the Kingdom of Christ?
III. OUTSTANDING MILLENNIAL SCRIPTURES.
The Teachings of Our Lord.
The Kingdom Period in First Corinthians, Chapter 15.
The First Order of Resurrection.
The Second Order.
The Third Order.
Revelation Chapter 20.
The Resurrection of the Redeemed.
The Throne in the Clouds.
The Ezekiel-Mosaic Ritual.
The Perfect Age and the Final Apostasy.
The Last Enemy—Death.
The New Heavens and the New Earth.
The Nearer View of Eventualities.
Appendix Note on Revelation, Chapter 20.