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Some Pastors and Teachers
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
- Publisher
- The Banner of Truth Trust
- 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
- View at publisher
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
