The Nature of God

by Arthur Walkington Pink

Publisher:

Faithlife

, 2005

Pink writes in chapter one, “...so few are accustomed to meditate upon the personal perfections of God. Comparatively few who occasionally read the Bible are aware of the awe-inspiring and worship-provoking grandeur of the divine character. That God is great in wisdom, wondrous in power, yet full of mercy is assumed by many as common knowledge. But to entertain anything approaching an adequate conception of His being, nature, and attributes, as revealed in the Scripture, is something which very few people in these degenerate times have done.” Join Pink in being awestruck at the incomparable and majestic nature of God. Part one considers “excellencies which pertain to the Godhead as God” and part two considers “excellencies which pertain to God the Son as Christ.”

Key Features

• Challenging and inspirational
• Rich in devotional and practical truth

Praise for the Print Edition

The widespread circulation of his writings after his death made him one of the most influential evangelical authors in the second half of the twentieth century.

—Iain H. Murrary

Product Details

• Title: The Nature of God
• Author: A. W. Pink
• Publisher: Logos Research Systems, Inc.
• Publication Date: 2005
• Pages: 318

About A. W. Pink

A. W. Pink (1886-1952) a native of Nottingham, England, whose life as a pastor and writer was spent in a variety of locations in the British Isles, the United States, and Australia. As a young man he turned away from the Christian faith of his parents and became an adherent of the theosophical cult; but then he experienced an evangelical conversion and crossed the Atlantic in 1910, at the age of 24, to become a student at the Moody Bible Institute in Chicago. After only six weeks, however, he left to take up a pastoral ministry. It was during the years that followed that he found his way to a strictly Calvinistic position in theology. He was soon wielding a quite prolific pen. As one whose life was devoted to the study and exposition of the Scriptures, he became the author of numerous books which the Banner of Truth Trust has been assiduously reprinting in recent times. No doubt his chief monument is the paper Studies in the Scriptures which he produced monthly and regularly for a period of thirty years from the beginning of 1922 until his death in 1952.

Contents

Top Highlights

“The fact is that foreknowledge is never used in Scripture in connection with events or actions; instead, it always refers to persons. It is persons God is said to ‘foreknow,’ not the actions of those persons.” (Page 30)

“Third, there is a sovereign mercy reserved for the heirs of salvation, which is communicated to them in a covenant way, through the Mediator.” (Page 86)

“False theology makes God’s foreknowledge of our believing the cause of His election to salvation. However, God’s election is the cause, and our believing in Christ the effect.” (Page 28)

“God is no gainer even from our worship. He was in no need of that external glory of His grace which arises from His redeemed, for He is glorious enough in Himself without that. What was it that moved Him to predestinate His elect to the praise of the glory of His grace? It was ‘according to the good pleasure of His will’ (Eph. 1:5).” (Page 12)

“God foreknows what will be because He has decreed it.” (Page 31)

Product Details

• Title: The Nature of God
• Author: Arthur Walkington Pink
• Publisher: Faithlife
• Print Publication Date: 2005
• Logos Release Date: 2005
• Era: era:modern
• Language: English
• Resources: 1
• Format: Digital › Logos Research Edition
• Subject: Jesus Christ › Person and offices
• Resource ID: LLS:AWP-NTRGOD
• Resource Type: Monograph
• Metadata Last Updated: 2022-02-23T22:44:12Z

About Arthur Walkington Pink

A. W. Pink (1886–1952) pastored churches in the United States and Australia for most of his working life. At the age of 24, Pink experienced an evangelical conversion and crossed the Atlantic from Great Britain to study at Moody Bible Institute in Chicago. But after only six weeks, he left to take up a pastoral ministry during which he found his way to a strictly Calvinistic position in theology.

In 1922, Pink produced a monthly magazine entitled Studies in the Scriptures which circulated among English-speaking Christians worldwide. Pink devoted his life to the study and exposition of the Scriptures and became the author, also under the name Arthur Walkington Pink, of numerous books which the Banner of Truth Trust began publishing after Pink’s death.

Articles, books, tracts, and pamphlets, including the notable Exposition of Hebrews and The Nature of God, can be found in the A. W. Pink Collection (40 vols.). Also available from Logos are The Godhood of God, Why Four Gospels?, The Divine Inspiration of the Bible, and The Law and the Saint.