Gibson From Heaven He Came and Sought Her

Definite Atonement in Historical, Biblical, Theological, and Pastoral Perspective
1. Auflage 2013
ISBN: 978-1-4335-2402-8
Verlag: Crossway
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E-Book, Englisch, 704 Seiten

Reihe: The Doctrines of Grace

There is a palpable sense of confusion-and sometimes even embarrassment-with regard to so-called limited atonement today, pointing to the need for thoughtful engagement with this controversial doctrine. Incorporating contributions from a host of respected theologians, From Heaven He Came and Sought Her stands as the first comprehensive resource on definite atonement as it examines the issue from historical, biblical, theological, and pastoral perspectives. Offering scholarly insights for those seeking a thorough and well-researched discussion, this book will encourage charitable conversations as it winsomely defends this foundational tenet of Reformed theology. *The epub edition of this title will not display correctly when viewed on Adobe Digital Editions. Hebrew characters will be inaccurately displayed in this reader.

David Gibson (PhD, University of Aberdeen) is minister of Trinity Church in Aberdeen, Scotland. He is a coeditor of From Heaven He Came and Sought Her, and his publications include Living Life Backward: How Ecclesiastes Teaches Us to Live in Light of the End; Radically Whole: Gospel Healing for the Divided Heart; and The Lord of Psalm 23: Jesus Our Shepherd, Companion, and Host. He is married to Angela, and they have four children.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Gibson, David

Gibson, Jonathan

Leseproben

Acknowledgments

This book, more than six years in the making, would not have happened without several people who helped cultivate the project from idea to reality. We owe them an incalculable debt of gratitude.

Justin Taylor at Crossway was our first point of contact as we wondered whether the project could work. He honed our multivolume enthusiasm into the much more realistic undertaking you now hold in your hands. We have been indebted to Justin at each step of the way, as well as to Jill Carter and Allan Fisher for their oversight. It was a delight to work with the Crossway team. Our thanks to Angie Cheatham, Amy Kruis, Janni Firestone, Maureen Magnussen, and especially to Bill Deckard for his patience and editorial skills.

Garry Williams agreed to act as a theological reader, then became a contributor, and each essay is the better for his many years of reflection on the atonement in all its aspects. Tom Schreiner encouraged us enormously with his help in the early stages, and we are grateful as well to Raymond Blacketer, Henri Blocher, Jonathan Moore, Lee Gatiss, Michael Horton, Peter Orr, and Ian Hamilton, who each provided essential assistance. Kylie Thomas kindly checked references of seventeenth-century French works in the Cambridge University Library, as well as providing excellent editorial help. Tom McCall and Mark Thompson interacted critically with some of the material in a most gracious manner. Thanks are also due to Aaron Denlinger, Mark Earngey, John Ferguson, Will Lind, Peter Matthess, Richard Muller, Paul Reed, David Schrock, and Edwin Tay.

Closer to home, Peter Dickson at Trinity Church, Aberdeen, has been as fine an example and friend as one could hope for. At various stages he willingly took on more work to allow David time to read and write and edit. Jonathan is indebted to his mentor and friend, Charles De Kiewit, Pastor of Central Baptist Church in Pretoria, South Africa, for first introducing him to Reformed theology.

Our wives, Angela and Jacqueline, have been a constant source of encouragement. They tolerated our late nights and indulged our frequent conversations, and the completed book is as much due to their patience, grace, and humor as anything else. We are grateful to them beyond words.

We dedicate our labors with this volume to our children—Archie, Ella, Samuel, Lily, and Benjamin, respectively. As we write, they are too little to understand all the glorious depths of Christ’s atoning death. But enfolded in covenant promise, they have had its beauty proclaimed to them at their baptisms and our prayer is that they will never remember a day when they did not know the love of the Savior.

For you, little child, Jesus Christ has come, he has fought, he has suffered. For you he entered the shadow of Gethsemane and the horror of Calvary. For you he uttered the cry, “It is finished!” For you he rose from the dead and ascended into heaven and there he intercedes—for you, little child, even though you do not know it. But in this way the word of the Gospel becomes true. “We love him, because he first loved us.”

—French Reformed Baptismal Liturgy

Abbreviations

AACM	Ad Acta Colloquii Montisbelgardensis Tubingae edita Theodori Bezae responsio, Tubingae edita, 2 vols. (Geneva: J. le Preuz, 1587–1588)

BAGD	W. Bauer, A Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament and Other Early Christian Literature, ed. W. F. Arndt, F. W. Gingrich, and F. W. Danker (Chicago: University of Chicago, 1979)

BDB	F. Brown, S. R. Driver, and C. A. Briggs, Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1929)

BECNT

Baker Exegetical Commentary on the New Testament

BSac	Bibliotheca Sacra

BTP	Moïse Amyraut, Brief Traitté de la Predestination et de ses principales dépendances (Saumur, France: Jean Lesnier & Isaac Debordes, 1634; 2nd ed. revised and corrected, Saumur, France: Isaac Debordes, 1658)

CAH	Brian G. Armstrong, Calvinism and the Amyraut Heresy: Protestant Scholasticism and Humanism in Seventeenth-Century France (Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1969; repr. Eugene, OR: Wipf & Stock, 2004)

CD	Karl Barth, Church Dogmatics, ed. G. W. Bromiley and T. F. Torrance, 14 vols. (Edinburgh: T. & T. Clark, 1956–1975)

CO	Ioannis Calvini Opera quae supersunt omnia, ed. J. W. Baum, A. E. Cunitz, and E. Reuss, 59 vols. (Braunschweig, Germany: Schwetschke, 1863–1900)

CNTC	Calvin’s New Testament Commentaries, ed. David W. Torrance and Thomas F. Torrance (various translators), 12 vols. (Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans, 1959–1972)

CRT	Richard A. Muller, Calvin and the Reformed Tradition: On the Work of Christ and the Order of Salvation (Grand Rapids, MI: Baker Academic, 2012)

CTCT	Ian McPhee, “Conserver or Transformer of Calvin’s Theology? A Study of the Origins and Development of Theodore Beza’s Thought, 1550–1570” (doctoral thesis, University of Cambridge, 1979)

CTJ	Calvin Theological Journal

CTS	Calvin Translation Society

EQ	Evangelical Quarterly

FRR	Jeffrey Mallinson, Faith, Reason, and Revelation in Theodore Beza 1519–1605 (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2003)

ICC	International Critical Commentary

JBL	Journal of Biblical Literature

JETS	Journal of the Evangelical Theological Society

JTS	Journal of Theological Studies

KD	Karl Barth, Die kirchliche Dogmatik (Munich: Chr. Kaiser, 1932; and Zürich: Evangelischer Verlag Zürich, 1938–1967)

LXX	Septuagint

MT	Masoretic Text

NICNT

New International Commentary on the New Testament

NICOT

New International Commentary on the Old Testament

NIGTC

New International Greek Testament Commentary

NPNF 1

Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, A Select Library of the Christian Church, ed. Philip Schaff, First Series, 14 vols. (repr. Peabody, MA: Hendrickson, 1994)

NPNF 2

Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, A Select Library of the Christian Church, ed. Philip Schaff and Henry Wace, Second Series, 14 vols. (repr. Peabody, MA: Hendrickson, 1994)

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NSBT	New Studies in Biblical Theology