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Some Pastors and Teachers

by Sinclair B. Ferguson

Some Pastors and Teachers is a volume for every minister’s study and indeed for the bookshelves and bedside tables of everyone who has a concern for the ministry of the gospel and the well-being of the church in the twenty-first century. In many ways, it reflects the biblical vision of what every minister is called to be: pastor, teacher, counsellor, and example—but also a man who is growing spiritually, both in understanding and in character, before the eyes of his congregation. In five sections and thirty-nine chapters, Sinclair B Ferguson writes on pastor-teachers whose life and work have left an indelible mark on his own life, and then leads us in a series of chapters on the teaching of John Calvin, John Owen and the seventeenth century Puritans. This is followed by studies of

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Publication

Date published
Dec 18, 2017
Print status
In print

The Physical Book

Binding
Hardback
Dust jacket
No
Total pages
824 pages
ISBN-13
9781848717893

Reference

E-book / audio
ePub, Mobi
Publisher page
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Contents

  • INTRODUCTION
  • I PASTORS AND TEACHERS: THREE JOHNS
  • 1. John Calvin: Pastor-Teacher
  • 2. John Owen: Pastor and Teacher
  • 3. John Murray: Teacher of Pastors
  • II JOHN CALVIN: PASTOR-TEACHER
  • 4. A Heart for God
  • 5. Manifested in the Flesh: John Calvin on the Reality of the Incarnation
  • 6. John Calvin: Commentator for Preachers
  • 7. Christology and Pneumatology: John Calvin, the Theologian of the Holy Spirit
  • 8. Calvin and Christian Experience: the Holy Spirit in the Life of a Christian
  • 9. Calvin on the Lord’s Supper and Communion with Christ
  • III PURITANS: PASTORS AND TEACHERS
  • 10. Puritans: Ministers of the Word
  • 11. John Owen and the Doctrine of the Person of Christ
  • 12. John Owen on the Glory of Christ
  • 13. John Owen on the Priesthood of Christ
  • 14. John Owen and the Doctrine of the Holy Spirit
  • 15. John Owen on Christian Piety
  • 16. Some Thoughts on Reading the Works of John Owen
  • 17. John Flavel and the Mystery of Providence
  • 18. Preaching the Law of God: Reformers and Puritans
  • IV THE PASTOR AND TEACHING
  • 19. How Does the Bible Look at Itself?
  • 20. Scripture and Tradition
  • 21. The Holy Spirit and the Holy Scriptures: Inerrancy and Pneumatology
  • 22. What Is Biblical Theology?
  • 23. ‘Hallowed Be Thy Name’: the Holiness of the Father
  • 24. Christus Victor et Propitiator: the Death of Christ, Substitute and Conqueror
  • 25. Sola Fide
  • 26. Assurance Justified
  • 27. Christian Spirituality: the Reformed View of Sanctification
  • 28. Reformed Theology—Reformed Lifestyle
  • 29. The Reformed Doctrine of Sonship
  • 30. Some Reflections on the ‘First Title’ of the Holy Spirit
  • 31. Repentance, Recovery, and Confession
  • V THE PASTOR AND PREACHING
  • 32. The Bit, the Bridle, and the Blessing: An Exposition of James 3:1-12
  • 33. Exegetical Preaching
  • 34. Preaching Christ from the Old Testament Scriptures
  • 35. The Preacher as Theologian
  • 36. Preaching the Atonement
  • 37. Preaching to the Heart
  • 38. Preaching and the Reformed Theological Tradition
  • 39. A Preacher’s Decalogue
  • EPILOGUE:
  • Doxology
  • SCRIPTURE INDEX
  • GENERAL INDEX
  • ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS