Things Unseen: A Systematic Introduction to the Christian Faith and Reformed (Machen, Gresham J.)

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On a Sunday afternoon in 1935, J. Gresham Machen stepped into a broadcast booth at WIP Radio in Philadelphia and began something no one had tried before: teaching Reformed theology over the radio. In the vein of C.S. Lewis’s landmark “Mere Christianity” talks, Machen’s addresses are a crystal-clear articulation of the basics of the Christian faith, unfolding into an exceptional and persuasive explanation of Reformed theology.

Things Unseen is both an accessible systematic theology, and a masterclass in evangelistic apologetics. Introduced by Timothy J. Keller, Foreword by Sinclair B. Ferguson, Historical Preface by Stephen J. Nichols, Afterword by Richard B. Gaffin, Jr.

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“Virtually every page bristles with ideas for preaching and communicating the great doctrines of the faith...An unparalleled storehouse of great illustrations, delineations, and arguments for Christian doctrines. There is nothing quite like it.”

Tim Keller

“It is not always the case that an individual with such massive learning is as gifted a popular communicator as Machen...There is no dichotomy here between the preacher, the biblical scholar, and the systematic theologian. For orthodoxy, clarity, and sheer gospel verve they are hard to beat.”

Sinclair Ferguson

Table of Contents

Foreword by Sinclair B. Ferguson . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xvii

Historical Preface by Stephen J. Nichols . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xxi

Introduction by Timothy J. Keller . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xxix

Part 1: The Christian Faith in the Modern World

Preface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3

1. The Present Emergency and How to Meet It . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5

2. How May God Be Known? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13

3. Has God Spoken? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19

4. Is the Bible the Word of God? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25

5. Do We Believe in Verbal Inspiration? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33

6. Shall We Defend the Bible? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41

7. The Bible versus Human Authority . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49

8. Life Founded upon Truth . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57

9. God, the Creator . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67

10. The Triune God . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75

11. What Is the Deity of Christ? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83

12. Does the Bible Teach the Deity of Christ? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91

13. The Sermon on the Mount and the Deity of Christ . . . . . . . . . . . 99

14. What Jesus Said about Himself . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 107

15. The Supernatural Christ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 115

16. Did Christ Rise from the Dead? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 123

17. The Testimony of Paul to Christ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 131

18. The Holy Spirit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 139

Part 2: The Christian View of Man

Preface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 149

19. The Living and True God . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 151

20. The Decrees of God . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 159

21. God’s Decrees and Man’s Freedom . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 167

22. What Is Predestination? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 175

23. Does the Bible Teach Predestination? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 183

24. Objections to Predestination . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 191

25. God’s Works of Creation and Providence . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 199

26. God’s Works of Providence . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 207

27. Miracles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 217

28. Did God Create Man? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 227

29. How Did God Create Man? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 235

30. God’s Image in Man . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 245

31. The Covenant of Life . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 253

32. The Fall of Man . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 263

33. What Is Sin? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 271

34. The Majesty of the Law of God . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 279

35. Is Mankind Lost in Sin? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 289

36. The Consequences of the Fall of Man . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 297

37. What Is Original Sin? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 305

38. Sinners Saved by Grace . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 315

Part 3: The Final Broadcasts

39. The Progress of Christian Doctrine . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 327

40. The Creeds and Doctrinal Advance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 335

41. God, Man, and Salvation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 343

42. Christ as Prophet, Priest, and King . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 351

43. What Is a Prophet? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 359

44. Prophecy and the Gospel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 367

45. The Teaching of Jesus . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 375

46. Prophet and Priest . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 383

47. Christ Our Redeemer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 391

48. The Doctrine of the Atonement . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 399

49. The Active Obedience of Christ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 407

50. The Bible’s View of the Atonement . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 415

Afterword by Richard B. Gaffin, Jr. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 423

Indexes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 427

Notes and Acknowledgments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 445

Product Details

Title: Things Unseen: A Systematic Introduction to the Christian Faith and Reformed Theology  

Author: Machen, Gresham J.

Publisher: Westminster Seminary Press

Pages: 486

Binding: Hardcover

Size: 23.5 x 16.0 x 3.2 cm

ISBN: 9781733627245