Excerpts from the BookThere was a time when the theological discourse was most prominent in the writings of the men of God, and we have suffered much as a result of its disappearance. This was particularly appropriate in the days of our Puritan writers of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. It used to be in the heart of the men of God to spend their
entire lifetime moving in and out among the fundamentals of the great historic
Christian Faith. Reinforcing these great truths with great connecting links
between each of the fundamental truths, there was formed a total fabric of a
one-cloth truth that would lead the Christians through all the various
compartments of life. This fabric of truth wore well in better days. However, in
our time, we crave the little truth, the Christian calendar
text-for-the-busy-day. We swallow a devotional book to comfort our religious
daily duty, but we begin to starve for God. Not believing we are really starving
for God and hungering for a deeper faith, we fall back on trivia and religious
entertainment, thinking “Jesus” in any form is Jesus in the singular form, all
The Holy Scriptures. This book will be useless to the reader unless we establish quickly where the study of the human spirit must lead us. Anything known about a creature who is human commences in the fall of man. At the other end of the revealed Word of God lies the redemption of man by the free grace of God as set forth in the Cross of Calvary where Christ Jesus died for our sins according to the Scriptures (I Cor. 15:3). Therefore, we may view manthe human spirit—in the fall or in the Cross. We begin this unpretentious book with man in creation and the fall, as well as in the Cross and redemption. |
Table of Contents |
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The Sevenfold Symbol | |
Preface | |
Introduction | |
1. | The Human Spirit in the Cross |
2. | The Human Spirit in Prayer |
3. | The Spirits of Just Men |
4. | Discovering the Human Spirit at the Border of Eden |
5. | At Our Own Exit of Sin |
6. | Contrast Definitions of the Human Spirit |
7. | Biblical Definitions of the Human Spirit |
8. | The Civil War of the Soul |
9. | Reckon, Yield, Obey |
10. | Two Original Words |
11. | Remove This Mountain |
12. | The Harp and Heart of a King |
13. | From Touch to Taste |
14. | The Skin of Things |
15. | Longing for Adornment |
16. | The Deeper Sin |
17. | Surprises in Heaven |
18. | A Woman Shall Compass a Man |
19. | Preserve or Change? |
20. | The Noble Heart |
21. | The Countenance of the Noble Heart |
22. | The Interior of the Heart |
23. | The Candle in the Window |
24. | The Soil of the Heart |
25. | Two Kings of Repentance |
26. | Three Interpretations of Grace |
27. | Maladjusted Men |
28. | Sorrow on the Sea |
29. | Is Hope True? |
30. | The Matter of Manner |
31. | Blank Spots in the Saints |
32. | The Genius |
33. | Chopin and Decadence |
34. | The Renaissance Man |
35. | The Classic and the Aesthetic |
36. | Never Wound a Wounded Man |
37. | Nothing to Pay |
38. | Your Own Private Chapel |
39. | Puzzling Passages |
40. | Three Views of the Cross |
41. | Three Beyonds |
42. | Two Kinds of Southern Religion |
43. | The Scripture of Truth |
44. | The Great Earthly Corpus |
45. | Understanding by Books |
46. | The Formula of the Universe |
47. | Exceptional Laws for Exceptional Deeds |
48. | The Great Experiment: Dumbness or Silence? |
49. | The Children's Charter |
50. | Choosing for the Charter's Children |
51. | God Requireth the Past |
52. | Just Men (A Miscellany) |
53. | The Fabric of the Fundamentals |
54. | Preserving the Preserved Word |
55. | Connecting Links to Cardinal Truths |
56. | Life Is One Season |
57. | Courtesy and Conscience? Apology or Repentance? |
58. | Kindred Spirits |
59. | The Devil Destroys; The Holy Spirit Crucifies |
60. | Art in Crisis |
61. | When God Has a Crisis: Change the Audience |
62. | What to Do with Space? |
63. | A Lifetime with Art and Music |
64. | God's Secret in the Human Spirit |
65. | Mercy for Man's Misery |
66. | I'll Meet You in the Morning |
Poem: "He Hath Gone" | |
Appendix | |