Arthur Pink, The Satisfaction of Christ: Studies in the Atonement, Truth for Today Publications.
Arthur Pink hardly needs an introduction to the bulk of present day Reformed evangelicals as many of us have grown up with Pink’s books and grown in grace whilst reading them. Pink’s massive tome An Exposition of Hebrews has opened our eyes to covenant blessings, his Elijah (now …
Posts Tagged Arthur W. Pink
Pink on Satisfaction
Aug 18
The Problem of Fullerism
Aug 24
… Here, Fahy strives to make our Reformers and Puritans, and especially John Gill, toe the line with Arthur Pink concerning the alleged duties of the unconverted to exercise saving faith. In doing so, he puts forward antitheses which were certainly never taught by those whom he claims are his mentors. Fahy teaches that the Apostles never preached the law but instead ‘preached Christ’, thus drawing a false dichotomy between the law and the Fulfiller of it. Where the Spirit works in preaching, …
The Atonement
Aug 17
… up this precious doctrine.
Separating the inseparable
Symptomatic of this trend is Arthur W. Pink’s work The Satisfaction of Christ . Long out of print, this book has recently been republished, highlighting the modern taste for an atonement without at-one-ment. Pink, known otherwise as a pillar of orthodoxy, though his works usually appear in highly edited forms, is now published verbatim as denying the Biblical doctrine of reconciliation. Indeed, in his denial Pink …
Christian Bennett’s Review
Aug 15
… on which he bases further surmising. Here, I am accused of mistaking Berkof, and ’scolding’ Pink and Murray concerning eternal justification, a doctrine I never mention as it was not held by Hervey.
Though I state correctly on page 332 that Berkof viewed justification as God’s decree, Bennett reads this as a reference to eternal justification which Berkof rejects. Bennett’s remarks suggest either that he does not look on justification as God’s decree in opposition to …
… alike as the men who, in their twisted religious zeal, sent dozens of innocents to the scaffold. Arthur Miller, the self-styled moral reformer and author of The Crucible, a dramatised account of the Salem Witch Trials which the author claims is historical, sums up all the antipathy poured out against the Mathers by declaring that Cotton Mather incorporated ‘absolute evil’ 2 . Elsewhere he speaks of Mather’s doing his uttermost to have the witches hanged in spite of the opposition …
… marrow of Christian doctrine. This lack of knowledge concerning the Reformation has led to Phil Arthur’s (4:7) serious historical inaccuracies and anachronisms which would need a sound article to put them right. So, too, F.B. Ellis (0:8) has obviously read none of England’s Reformers on the Word of God or he would not have striven to defend certain Presbyterian and Baptists traditions from a Bible which is silent on them.
Harmon on Fuller
Nov 7
… been happily preserved from using Harmon’s invectives.
Harmon’s recommendation of Arthur Kirkby’s work contra Ella suggests that he never read beyond my Introduction. Kirkby’s most balanced thesis, which I recommend in my work, was the basis of my studies on Fuller. I consulted Dr. Kirkby personally on two occasions for guidance. Kirkby argues in his thesis that one can sum up Fuller’s theology of salvation in the slogan “I can if I will”. My work shows that Kirkby …
Sir:
Gary E. Gilley’s ET essays on Pietism and subjective Christianity lack historical and theological objectivity. German Pietism was not rooted in Lutheranism but started in the 1660s in Reformed and formerly Reformed areas along the rivers Ems, Ruhr, Rhine and Lippe in Lower Germany; in Würtenberg and Alsace in Upper Germany and in Reformed Switzerland. The German church-based …
Sir:
Iain Murray’s excellent, necessarily selective, overview of evangelicalism’s ups and downs (Issues 455-6) reveals the need of more pan-European study of the growth of Liberalism. Schleiermacher, of Moravian background and heart, was very much influenced by British Latidudinarians from whom he gained his love of Natural Law as opposed to revealed law. British Methodism helped …
