Collected Writings of John Murray

Volume 1: The Claims of Truth

Author

John Murray

Category Collected Works/Sets, Theology Books

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Weight	1.74 lbs
Dimensions	9.5 × 6.5 × 1.4 in
ISBN	9780851512419
Binding	Cloth-bound
Topic	Jesus Christ, Preaching & Teaching, Scripture, The Church, Worship, The Lord's Day
Original Pub Date	1976
Banner Pub Date	Nov 1, 1976
Page Count	388
Format	Book

Endorsements

‘In this collection of lectures, addresses, and sermons, Murray shows himself to be that rarest of birds: a first-rate academic who could communicate clearly. These 49 chapters on everything from Christology to the Sabbath to evangelism to Calvin to war to Christian education can be read profitably as history, as theology, or as devotional edification.’ — KEVIN DEYOUNG

Book Description

This volume contains the most important of John Murray’s shorter writings and addresses between the years 1935 and 1973. They have been placed together in this opening volume of his Collected Writings as the best introduction to his thought on wide range of Christian truth. Murray’s belief was that, while the expression of truth ‘may be expanded indefinitely and furnish nourishment for the highest intellects to eternity’, it is also capable of presentation in popular and generally-understood terms. Accordingly, he speaks in these pages not so much to students as to the church at large in this critical century of her history. Such chapters as ‘Some Necessary Emphases in Preaching’, The Power of the Holy Spirit’, and’The Church of Mission’, show how thoroughly he understood the great inadequacies of much contemporary Christianity.

This material (none of which has been previously published in book form) gives the quintessence of the convictions which were characteristic of his mature thought. Their appeal in written form is increased by the pervasive influence of his belief that theology should be ‘shot through with warmth of ardent devotion’. He addresses himself to the needs of both mind and heart, believing that when Scripture is opened there should be both light and heat. His overriding concern is that the Word of God should challenge every area where thinking and living can be shown to be deficient and that the traditions of men should give way to ‘the claims of truth’.

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	Preface	xi
	THE HOLY SCRIPTURES
1	The Study of the Bible	3
2	The Infallibility of Scripture	9
3	The Finality and Sufficiency of Scripture	16
4	The Unity of the Old and New Testaments	23
	JESUS CHRIST
5	The Redeemer of God’s Elect	29
6	The Death of Christ	36
7	The Living Saviour	40
8	The Heavenly, Priestly Activity of Christ	44
9	The Atonement and the Free Offer of the Gospel	59
10	The Advent of Christ	86
	WESTMINSTER THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY AND ITS TESTIMONY
11	The Banner of Westminster Seminary	99
12	Greeting to Entering Students, 1944	104
13	Charge to Edmund P. Clowney	107
14	Greeting to Entering Students, 1966	110
15	Edward J. Young: An Appreciation	113
	THE GOSPEL AND ITS PROCLAMATION
16	The Grace of God	119
17	The Message of Evangelism	124
18	The Propagation of the Reformed Faith in New England	135
19	The Power of the Holy Spirit	138
20	Some Necessary Emphases in Preaching	143
21	Co-operation in Evangelism	152
	THE CHRISTIAN LIFE
22	Worship	165
23	Christian Doctrine and Life	169
24	The Christian Ethic	174
25	Adorning the Gospel	182
26	The Guidance of the Holy Spirit	186
	THE MORAL LAW AND THE FOURTH COMMANDMENT
27	The Sanctity of the Moral Law	193
28	The Sabbath Institution	205
29	The Pattern of the Lord’s Day	219
30	The Relevance of the Sabbath	225
	THE CHURCH
31	The Church: Its Definition in Terms of ‘Visible’ and ‘Invisible’ Invalid	231
32	The Church: Its Identity, Functions and Resources	237
33	The Church and Mission	245
34	The Relation of Church and State	253
35	Government in the Church of Christ	260
36	The Biblical Basis for Ecclesiastical Union	269
37	Corporate Responsibility	273
38	The Creedal Basis of Union in the Church	280
	HISTORICAL
39	Reformation	291
40	The Crux of the Reformation	298
41	Calvin as Theologian and Expositor	305
42	A Notable Tercentenary	312
43	The Importance and Relevance of the Westminster Confession	316
	ISSUES IN THE CONTEMPORARY WORLD
44	The Significance of the Doctrine of Creation	325
45	The Relevance of the Historical	330
46	William Barclay and the Virgin Birth	340
47	God and the War	344
48	The Christian World Order	356
49	Christian Education	367