The Beauty and Glory of Christ

Author: David Murray, Iain D. Campbell, Richard D. Phillips, Gerald M. Bilkes , David Carmichael, Albert N. Martin, William VanDoodewaard, Ray Pennings, 

Editor: Joel R. Beeke

Enjoy the spiritual feast served in The Beauty and Glory of Christ, a compilation of the addresses given at the Puritan Reformed Theological Seminary’s annual conference in August 2010 at Grand Rapids, Michigan. Each essay sets before readers the unsearchable riches of the Lord Jesus Christ, the hope of our glory and the glory of our hope. Topics include Christ’s beauty prophesied and typified in Isaiah and Song of Solomon; Christ’s glory in His incarnation, earthly ministry, and death on the cross; Christ in historical theology and everyday life; and Christ’s glorious exaltation in His resurrection and in His triumph in the book of Revelation. Contributors include David Murray, Iain Campbell, Richard Phillips, Gerald Bilkes, David Carmichael, Albert Martin, Joel Beeke, William VanDoodewaard, Ray Pennings, and James Grier.

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Christ’s Beauty Prophesied and Typified

1. The Beauty of Isaiah’s Servant (David Murray)
2. The Song of David’s Son (Iain Campbell)
3. He Is Altogether Lovely (Iain Campbell)

Christ’s Glory from Bethlehem to Golgotha

4. The Glory of Christ’s Victorious Incarnation (Richard Phillips)
5. The Glory of Christ’s Parables (Gerald Bilkes)
6. Jesus, Master of Storms (David Carmichael)
7. Jesus, Master of Stress (David Carmichael)
8. The Glory of Christ’s Victorious Death (Albert Martin)

Christ in Historical Theology and Everyday Life

9. Glorying in the Imputed Righteousness of Christ (Richard Phillips)
10. Thomas Goodwin on Christ’s Beautiful Heart (Joel R. Beeke)
11. Christology in Marrow Theology (William Van Doodewaard)
12. Christology: Calvin, Kuyper, and Politics (Ray Pennings)
13. The Daily Challenge of Christ-Centered Living (Ray Pennings)

Christ’s Glorious Exaltation

14. The Glory of Christ’s Victorious Resurrection (Albert Martin)
15. The Investiture of the Lamb (James Grier)
16. Hallelujah to the Triumphant Christ (James Grier)

Endorsements:

“B.B. Warfield, that great Presbyterian lover of Christ, once gave two reasons for his being a Christian: the invincible worldwide expansion of Christianity and ‘his own inner experience of the transforming power of his Lord upon the heart and life.’ But it strikes me that the one great indubitable proof of Christianity’s truth is Christ Himself, the paragon of all that is truly glorious and beautiful. Indeed, if there is one startling lack among much of modern Evangelical thinking and doing, it is that the Father’s supreme joy, the Lord Jesus, is strangely absent from so much of our activity. This collection of addresses is a great help to filling this dreadful lacuna. Page after page forces the reader to reckon with this one supreme fact: Christianity is Christ and being a Christian is first and foremost being ravished by His beauty and living for His glory. May God give this volume a wide spiritual impact, for its vision of Christ is sorely needed.” 

—Michael A. G. Haykin, Professor of Church History and Biblical Spirituality, The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, Louisville

256pp. Hardback.