A study of the biblical and Reformed teaching on the Christian's hope in this world, in the prospect of the triumph of the gospel.

    Included are early church fathers, reformers, missionaries, pastors, and scholars. They are "God's Heroes," men who, "though differing in background, . . . had in common an unswerving devotion to the Lord Jesus Christ, and a total dedication to His Word."The photographs of the ninety-one original oil paintings which hang in the Christian Hall of Fame in the Canton Baptist Temple, Canton, Ohio, the brief biographical sketches, and the excerpts from the writings of the men or their biographers help to make this unique book both educational and inspirational.

    

    

    This practical guide to the spiritual life, cherished by monks, beguines, and lay folk for eight centuries, can still lead men and women to God.

    A critical examination of the chronological relationships between Israel and the contemporary peoples of antiquity (sub-title)

    For Christian theology, change raises special difficulties. How are we to reconcile the notion of the revelation of an unchanging God, who is abiding truth, with the notion of the pervading mutability of all human affairs? This problem, which is as old as religion, is intensified by the Christian belief in the fullness and finality of the revelation made through Jesus Christ. Professor Pelikan begins his study of historical theology with this basic problem and traces the origins of the difficulties that inevitably follow upon the admission of the possibility of change. His investigations lead him to critically examine the dogmatic solution of Vincent of Lerins, the later dialectical interpretation of Abelard, the approach of Thomas Aquinas, and finally, the nineteenth century's Adolf von Harnack to propose a working definition of Christian doctrine and of the task of the historical theologian. Pelikan's work is a perceptive and penetrating study of the interaction of history and theology. Theology must be historical because man is historical. To neglect history, or worse still, to renounce it, is to deny man and theology their common future. Historical Theology is a worthy introduction to a task that must continually seek to weld past, present, and future into a living whole.