Westminster Conference Papers 1996

THE FIRE DIVINE
Westminster Conference Papers 1996
Available from the Conference Secretary, 8 Back Knowl Road, Mirfield, West Yorks. WF14 9SA.
164 pages. £4.50 (inc. p&p.)

The six papers which make up this slim volume are a feast of historical research, full of relevance to our contemporary situation.

Subjects covered include Puritan thinking on marriage and divorce, and biographical sketches of the eccentric 18th-century evangelist Rowland Hill, the Quaker George Fox and Martin Luther (this last paper leans a little too heavily on quotation). There are two high points. The first is Robert Oliver's paper on Evangelicalism in Britain 1800 to 1835. This turns out to be deceptively important period with great numerical increase, but the rise of hyper-Calvinism and the initial impetus for the Oxford movement. The second is the contribution of Dr. Hywel Jones on Gresham Machen and his view of the veracity of Scripture. Similar battles to Machen's need fighting in our generation.

Dr John Benton

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Main Articles

• The man next door
  Christian witness to a next-door neighbour
• Holiday re-reading?
  Books that are recommended for re-reading
• Word and image in a TV age
  Problems of preaching the gospel in an age of visual images
• Why evangelicals join the Orthodox churches
  Consideration of reasons that some evangelicals have joined the Orthodox churches
• The war zone
  The events of 1 Samuel 17 (David and Goliath) applied to the present day
• Cambodian challenge
  Interview with Don Cormack concerning the recent history and present state of the church in Cambodia
• Hans Holbein and the Reformation
  Art in the time of the Reformation and the influence of Holbein's work
• Listening and understanding
  The necessity of Christians to be aware of current secular thinking
• Pluralism and truth (Bulldog for August)
• How to render gender in Scripture
  Guidelines for Bible translation

Other articles

• Westminster Conference Papers 1996
• Reggae Praise - Nothing to Dread
• Wait for the Lord
• Deep River
• Gypsy From The Forest - A new biography of the international evangelist Gipsy Smith (1860-1947)
• Child Sex Abuse and the Churches
• Being Human
• How to Build Confidence in Your Child
• After Eating the Apricot
• Mormonism - A Gold-plated Religion
• Calvinus - Authentic Calvinism, A Clarification
• No Longer Slaves: Set Free By Christ
• The True Light - An evangelical's journey to Orthodoxy
• The Roaring of the Lion - A commentary on Amos