Abraham, 119, 131
adoption, 157–66; and the claims of sonship, 161–62, 216–17; explanation of in the Heidelberg Catechism, 160; the greatness of divine adoption, 160–61
angels, 39, 67, 107, 122, 130, 137
Anglicanism, evangelical nature of, 14–15
anti-intellectualism, 17, 18, 209
antinomianism, 107
anti-Trinitarianism, 69
Apostles’ Creed, 19
Aquinas, Thomas, 24, 118
Aristotle, 68
assurance, 9, 15, 57, 106, 108, 180; and biblical authority, 189; doctrine of, 187–92; and election, 189–90; and faith, 188–89 Athanasius, 24 atheism, 114 atonement, 73, 74, 76, 93, 140, 148, 164
Augustine, 24
baptism, 14, 43, 54–55, 174, 183; infant baptism, 56; of Jesus, 82, 136, 180, 233
Barfield, Owen, 238
Barth, Karl, 38, 242n19
Basic Bible Studies (Schaeffer), 179–80, 181
Bible, the, 12, 15, 16, 17, 21, 25, 28, 35, 65, 73, 77, 85, 95, 153, 169, 179, 193; biblical authority, 189, 194–95; biblical literacy, 20; as the “Blest Book,” 204; love songs (hymns) to, 201–9; worship of (Bibliolatry), 197–98. See also Bible study
Bible study, 9, 20, 59, 61, 97, 113, 178, 179
Bonar, Horatius, 204–5, 214
Bray, Gerald, 10–11, 21, 52, 55; on the inner life of God, 81
“Break Thou the Bread of Life” (Lathbury), 205
Brunner, Emil, 240n2 Bunyan, John, 41–42, 220, 241n27; definition
of true prayer, 214
Burkitt, William, 83
Calvin, John, 163–64, 189; on union with Christ, 172–73
Campus Crusade for Christ, 23
Candlish, Robert S., 161
Chambers, Oswald, 22, 186, 220
Chesterton, G. K., 80, 98
Christ Knocking at the Door of Sinners’ Hearts, or, A Solemn Entreaty to Receive the Saviour and His Gospel (Flavel), 170–71
Christian Faith, The (Schleiermacher), 39, 40
Christian and Missionary Alliance, 103
Christian Theology (Wiley), 245n25
Christianity, 14, 22, 39, 54, 87, 97, 107, 109, 114, 229; Christian life and the life of the Trinity, 230–31; evangelical Christianity, 7, 10, 11, 19–20, 21; gospel theology of Christianity’s formative period, 36; “heart” Christianity, 115; and the idea of God as a person, 227–28; Trinitarian tradition within, 22–23. See also Christians
Christians, 27–28; central reality of (doctrine, behavior, emotions), 112; emotional Christians, 115; evangelical Christians, 34, 209; “hand” Christians, 113–14; “head” Christians, 113; “heart” Christians, 114
Christocentrism, 173, 175
communion, and authority, 193–95
Communion with God the Father, Son, and Holy Ghost (Owen), 142
conversion (to a personal relationship with Jesus), 12, 15–17, 20, 57, 74, 105, 106, 108, 143
“convertive piety,” 57
Council of Nicaea, 46, 235
Cowper, William, 206–7
creation, 39, 64, 65–66, 67, 69, 70, 87, 88, 92, 95, 120, 155
cross of Christ, the, 15–16; reductionist nature of emphasizing only the cross in salvation history, 16
Cross and the Switchblade, The (Cruz), 28, 240n1
Cruz, Nicky, 61, 184; difficulty of in understanding the concept of the Trinity, 32–33; on the humanity of Christ, 29; Trinitarian theology of, 28–33; on the work of the Holy Spirit, 30–31
decadence, 110; typical reactions to, 110–11 Denney, James, 74
Desiring God (Piper), 94
Discerning the Mystery: An Essay on the Nature of Theology (Louth), 53–54
“Doctrines That Must Be Emphasized in Successful Evangelism” (Munhall), 15
“double gratuity,” 65–66, 67
ecclesiology, 53 economy, 128, 244n3. See also oikonomia
Edison, Thomas, 200
Edwards, Jonathan, 77–78, 242n4
election, 72, 144, 189–90
End for Which God Created the World, The (Edwards), 242n4
Erdman, Charles, 159–60
Eucharist, the, 55
evangelical, definition of, 23–24
evangelical heritage, 22–23
“Evangelical Religion” (Ryle), 14
evangelical resources, 55–59
evangelical Trinitarianism, 20, 162–63, 184–85, 187
evangelicalism, 8, 10, 44, 55, 56; biblicism of, 163; as a distinct subculture of Christianity, 109; and the doctrine of adoption, 164–65; emphatic approach to Christian witness, 17–18; emphatic evangelicalism, 14–20; forgetfulness/coldness of toward the Trinity, 11–12; and the personal character of knowing God, 57–58; primary emphases of (God’s revelation; Christ’s cross; conversion; heaven), 15–16; reductionist nature of, 16–17; shallowness of evangelical theology, 12; stages of, 109–10; tradition of, 14. See also evangelicals
evangelicals, 8, 209; and the authority of the Bible, 194–95; as Protestant, 23; questions of concerning the Trinity, 238; Trinitarian roots/character of, 9, 10–11, 22–23
Evolution at the Bar (Mauro), 200
Faber, Frederick W., 63
faith, 10–11, 14, 37, 43, 53–54, 73, 74, 90, 107, 149, 162, 169, 170, 176, 191, 220, 236; and assurance, 188–89; profession/ confession of, 46, 50, 55; and reason, 229; in the Trinity, 216
Farrar, Austin, 152–53
Fatherhood of God, The (Candlish), 161
Fawcett, John, 203
Ferguson, Sinclair, 161, 165
Flavel, John, 170–71, 245n14; on the salvation work of Christ and the Holy Spirit, 142–45
forgiveness, 107
Fountain of Life, The (Flavel), 142
Foursquare Gospel churches, 23
Fundamentals, The, 15, 22, 159, 195, 226, 245n34; criticism of, 159; importance of, 199–200 generation, 155
God, 13, 21, 35, 45, 69, 127, 179, 227; as “Abba, Father,” 46, 217; and the begetting of Jesus the Son, 91–92; communal praise of, 58; demands of on His children, 239; and divine freedom, 64–66; “double gratuity” of, 65–66, 67; economy of His salvation, 129–30, 146–47, 150–51, 187, 191; the economy of His salvation as the two hands of the Father, 136–41, 159; ; eternal love of, 95–96, 119, 233; eternal nature of, 94; glory of, 94; as God the Father, 86–88; goodness of, 71–72, 77–78; happiness of, 94; and human dignity, 65; inner life of, 81; and Jesus, 73–74, 231–32; as larger than our experiencing of Him, 186; negative approach to the knowledge of, 82; perfect blessedness of, 81, 94, 190; pledge of to Abraham, 119; presence of in the history of salvation, 233–234; promise of the glory of, 237–38; purpose of, 61–62; revelation of, 231; as the source of salvation, 137; sovereignty of, 190, 222; as triune, 43; view of Jesus by, 78–80; what He is and does, 69–72, 77–83; where He expresses Himself, 130–33. See also gospel, the, and the deep things of God; grace, as God’s self-giving; Trinity, the
“God in Christ the Only Revelation of the Fatherhood of God” (Speer), 226
“Good to Me,” 71
Goodwin, Thomas, 97, 119, 122
Gore, Charles, 242n23
gospel, the, 13, 167–68; and the deep things of God, 121–25; eternal Trinity present in the gospel Trinity, 156–57; evangelicals and the “God-sized” gospel, 103–6, 117; “gospels of prosperity,” 108, 243n20; “gospels of sin management,” 108; linkage of to the Trinity, 40–41, 44–45; as a medicine easily spoiled, 108; as a reflection of God’s deepest self, 13; “shape” of, 127–28, 147; “size” of (gospel abundance), 98–103; spreading of, 20; the Trinity as the background of, 93–94
grace, 65; of creation and redemption, 65–66; as Godís self-giving, 117–21; as a term for all of Godís gifts, 118
Graham, Billy, 169–70, 171
gratitude, 65, 66, 71, 72, 77–78, 191
Gregory of Nazianzus, 248n23
Hawker, Robert, 78–79; on the essence of the Godhead, 79 Heidelberg Catechism, 160
Hidden Life, The: Thoughts on Communion with God (Saphir), 196
“Himself” (Simpson), 124
Holy Spirit, 21, 30–31, 35, 45, 88, 89, 90–91, 92, 94, 133, 216, 233; access of to the depths of Godís mysteries, 123; and carrying out the work of the Father, 138–39; differences between Jesus and the Holy Spirit, 138–41; distinct personality of, 154; and the economy of salvation, 147, 149–51, 245n25; eternal processions of, 155–56; indwelling of, 139–40, 148, 169–70, 177, 178; praying to, 224–26; redemptive work of, 141–49; role of in bringing about Christ’s Sonship, 158; role of in creating sons of God, 159–60; work of in company with Jesus, 134–35. See also Trinity, the
“Holy Spirit and the Sons of God, The” (Erdman), 159–60
How, W. W., 206
hymnody, evangelical, 202–9
hypostatic union, 140
incarnation, 16, 74, 86, 139–40, 158
Institutes of the Christian Religion (Calvin), 163–64, 172–73
Irenaeus of Lyons, 24, 137
Jesus Christ, 12, 21, 35, 37, 54, 120, 133, 136–37, 210, 220; baptism of, 82, 136, 180, 233; as begotten of God, 91–92; and carrying out the work of the Father, 138–39; differences between the Holy Spirit and Jesus, 138–41; earthly ministry of, 16; and the economy of salvation, 147, 149–51, 245n25; eternal generation of, 93, 232–33, 242–43n29; eternal processions of, 155–56; God’s view of, 78–80; humanity of, 140; the “I Am” statements of, 120; incarnation of, 16, 74, 86, 139–40, 158; love of for believers, 173–74; person of, 74; praying to, 224–25; preexistence of, 16, 84–85; presence of in the Lord’s Supper, 51; priestly office of, 221; redemptive work of, 141–49; relation of to the Father and to the Holy Spirit, 168–71; revelation of, 231; scriptural stress on Jesus as the Son of God, not God Himself, 152–53; as sent by the Father, 133–34; as the “Son of David anointed by the Spirit,” 147–48; sonship of, 88–89, 151–52, 155, 157–58, 220–21; story of, 64; Trinitarian background of stories concerning, 135–36; union with, 172–75; as the Word become flesh, 151–52; work of in company with the Holy Spirit, 134–35. See also Trinity, the
Job, 77
justification, 15, 74, 164, 165, 180, 181, 182, 190, 237
Kelly, Thomas, 203–4
Knowing God (Packer), 142
knowledge: explicit knowledge, 49; of God,
82–83; tacit nature of, 47–50
Kuhn, Thomas, 47
Larger Christian Life, A (Simpson), 103–4
Lathbury, Mary A., 205
Leighton, Robert, 64, 149; on the greatness of adoption, 160–61
Lewis, C. S., 22, 152, 248n23, 248n29; on the Lord’s Prayer, 234–35; mere Trinitarianism of, 235–39, 247–48n16; on Trinitarian prayer, 227–35 liberalism, 38, 241n19; FOGBOM (Fatherhood of God, Brotherhood of Man) liberalism, 87; nineteenth-century liberalism, 88
Life of God in the Soul of Man, The (Scougal),112
“Life in the World” (Mauro), 195, 200–202
liturgy, 51–55; in the Christian church, 51–52; power of, 52; tacit dimension of, 52–53; theological liturgy, 52
Lord’s Supper, Christ’s presence of in, 51
Louth, Andrew, 53–54
Luther, Martin, 118
Lynch, T. T., 205
Magnificent Three, The (Cruz), 28–29, 31
Manton, Thomas, 71
manualism, Catholic, 241n19
Mauro, Philip, 195, 199–202; on Scripture’s life characteristics, 200–201; Trinitarian doctrine of the Scriptures, 201–2
Mere Christianity (Lewis), 233, 235; rationale of being a child of God in, 236–37
Method of Grace, The (Flavel), 142, 245n14 modalism, 232, 233
Monod, Adolphe, 166
monotheism, serial, 90, 232
Moody, Dwight L., 121, 202; on the distinction between the work of Jesus and the work of the Holy Spirit, 145–46; “Gospel Dialogues” of, 145
Morgan, George Campbell, 195, 208–9
Moule, H. C. G., 96
Munger, Robert Boyd, 170, 171
Munhall, L. W., 15
Murray, Andrew, 215–16; on the eternal being of God in its Trinitarian dimension, 221–23
“My Heart––Christ’s Home” (Munger), 170
mystagogy, 55
New Testament, 63, 64, 70, 74, 77, 80, 89, 96, 120, 134, 153, 165, 169, 179–80; New Testament prayers, 224
Newbigin, Lesslie, 153–54
Newton, John, 118, 203
Nicene Creed, 19
No Little People (Schaeffer), 177
Noll, Mark, 37
Notes on the New Testament (J. Wesley), 105
Oden, Thomas, 118–19
oikonomia, 129, 130, 132, 244n3
Old Testament, 63, 64, 70, 119, 131, 179
On Religion (Schleiermacher), 40 orthodoxy, 177, 183
“outward man,” the, 113–14
Owen, John, 127, 142, 147, 214, 245n15
Packer, J. I., 22, 142, 210; on adoption, 165
Palmer, Benjamin Morgan, 192, 194
Paul, 18, 83, 85, 101–2, 104, 157–58, 214; on the blessings of the gospel, 122–23; on God’s economy of salvation, 129–33; on God’s love for us, 121; on Jesus’ love for believers, 173–74; theme of blessing/praising in Ephesians, 99–102; warning to the Galatians, 108
Pentecost, 159; role of Calvary and Easter in, 148–49
Pentecostals, 55
personal belief, and “universal intent,” 48
Personal Knowledge: Toward a Post-Critical Philosophy (Polanyi), 47
Phillips, J. B., 98
Piper, John, 94; “God is the gospel” concept of, 125
Polanyi, Michael, 46–49; context of his work, 241n34; on the nature of knowledge, 47–48
praise/praising, 101–2; communal praise, 58
prayer, 61, 97; alertness to the Trinity in, 214– 15; aligning prayer life with spiritual life in general, 215–16; as a blessing, 212–13; conversational prayer, 20; God’s answering of, 221–23; the “grain” of prayer, 212, 213–14; how prayer works, 211–14; praying like Jesus, 216–20; as tacitly Trinitarian, 212; which member of the Trinity we should pray to, 224–26. See also Lewis, C. S., on the Lord’s Prayer; Lewis, C. S., on Trinitarian prayer; Tyndale, William, commentary on the Lord’s Prayer
“Precious Bible” (Newton), 203
Protestantism, evangelical, 163
Psalms, praise of God in, 119–20
Rahner, Karl, 38, 43–44, 242n19
Rainsford, Marcus, 145–46, 162, 167, 192
rationalism, 199
redemption, 15, 18, 39, 40, 67, 70, 79, 92, 95–96; accomplishment and application of by the Trinity, 141–49; logic of freedom and gratitude in, 65–66
Religious Affections, The (Edwards), 77, 78
Run Baby Run (Cruz), 28, 29, 31
Ryle, J. C., 14, 108, 221
salvation, 9, 13, 39, 57, 61, 64, 73, 91, 97–98, 116, 165, 186; developing a coherent doctrine of, 111–12; the economy of God’s salvation, 128–33, 146–47, 230; the economy of God’s salvation as the two hands of the Father, 136–41; and evangelical theology, 163–64; as an experience of conversion, 108; evangelical treatment of, 107; full salvation (salvation to the “uttermost”), 105–6; propositions and doctrines concerning, 107–8; role of Christ’s life in, 16; saving relationship of the believer with the triune God, 180–81; and union with Christ, 173; what “being saved” means, 108–9. See also assurance, doctrine of; salvation history
salvation history, 16, 235; central role of the cross in, 15–16; God’s presence in, 233–34
sanctification, 39, 43, 74, 106, 145, 180–81, 216, 236, 237
Saphir, Adolph, 104, 163, 201, 205; approach of to Scripture, 195–99; on the charge of Bibliolatry, 197–99; on doctrine versus the experienced reality of God, 196; on Scripture as Trinitarian, 197; on the written Word of the past and the living Word of the present, 196–97
Schaeffer, Edith, 177
Schaeffer, Francis, 22, 167; on accepting Christ as our Savior, 182–83; on “relationship” with God, 182; on sanctification, 181; soteriology of, 178, 180–81; Trinitarian theology of, 175–84
Schleiermacher, Friedrich, 38–39
Scorgie, Glen, 209
Scougal, Henry, 112–13, 117; on true religion, 113, 116; on union of the soul with God, 116
Simpson, A. B., 103–4, 124, 200
Smith, Amanda, 24, 41, 42–43
Sola Scriptura, the voice of the Trinity in, 209–10
Song Companion, The (ed. Morgan), 202; discovery of hymns written on the Word of God, 202–3
soteriology, 74, 172; deficient soteriology, 173–75; of divine self-giving, 120–21; Reformed soteriology, 189–90; right soteriology, 175; Trinitarian soteriology, 163, 191–92
soul, the, 115–16; union of the soul with God, 116
Southern Baptists, 55
Speer, Robert, 226
spiration, 155
“Spirit and the Word, The” (Cowper), 206–7
spirituality, 11, 12, 61, 113, 177, 184; evangelical spirituality, 124, 193
Spurgeon, C. H., 105, 106
Story of the Lordís Dealings with Mrs. Amanda Smith, the Colored Evangelist, The (Smith), 42–43
Strong, Augustus H., 69
“Supernatural Universe, The” (F. Schaeffer), 175–76
Tacit Dimension, The (Polanyi), 47–48
theocentric thinking, 78–79
theologoumena, 40
Threefold Communion and the Threefold Assurance, The (Palmer), 192
Torrance, Thomas F., 49, 50–51
Torrey, R. A., 105, 134, 159, 196
Toulmin, Stephen, 47
Tozer, A. W., 209
Traherne, Thomas, 81–82
Trinitarian renewal, 56
Trinitarian theology, 34, 37, 38, 51, 72–77, 93, 227
Trinitarianism, 8, 11, 12, 21, 51, 69, 193; and the culture of evangelicalism, 36–37; deep Trinitarianism, 57; evangelical Trinitarianism, 162–63, 184–85, 187, 238–39; tacit dimension of, 44–51, 56, 58–59; vital Trinitarianism, 46
Trinity, the, 11, 227–30, 240n2, 245n15; analogies for, 35; baptism in the name of, 54–55; biblical proofs of, 35; blessedness of, 67; difficulty of explaining the concept of in mission work, 152–53; eternal life of, 83–93; experiencing the Trinity, 184–87; faith in, 216; and God, 61–62; the immanent Trinity, 89, 92; the ontological Trinity, 89, 92, 95; preexistence of to creation, 179–80; relationships of origin in the life of the Trinity, 91; verbal approach to, 34–35. See also adoption; redemption, accomplishment and application of by the Trinity; Trinity, the, doctrine of
Trinity, the, doctrine of, 7–8, 23, 33–34, 37–38, 46, 74, 80, 95; as belonging to the gospel itself, 9–10; as the classic statement of the truth of the Christian message, 18–19; and the consciousness of a Christian, 72–73; decline of in the modern world, 38–44; difficulty of, 32–33; eternal nature of, 89–90, 155–56; and God’s love, 95–96; and maintaining a sense of proportion, 74–76; and proper spiritual orientation, 80–81; as a teaching of who God is, 62–65; ways of approaching, 35–36
True Spirituality (F. Schaeffer), 175–76, 178, 181
Tyndale, William, commentary on the Lord’s Prayer, 217–20
virgin conception, 134
Warfield, B. B., 24, 242n23
Watts, Isaac, 41, 42, 241n29
“Weight of Glory, The” (Lewis), 237
Wesley, Charles, 112; hymns of, 207–8
Wesley, John, 18, 69, 83, 105, 106, 112, 142; desire to be homo unius libri (“man of one book”), 18
Wesley, Susannah, 22, 61, 112; Trinitarian theology of, 66–69
What the Bible Teaches (Torrey), 134
Whitefield, George, 112
Wiley, H. Orton, 245n25
Wilken, Robert Louis, 36–37
Wilkerson, David, 28
With Christ in the School of Prayer: Thoughts on Our Training for the Ministry of Intercession (Murray), 221–23
world missions, 20 worship experience, 58
Yeats, William Butler, 110
Your God Is Too Small (Phillips), 98