The Whole Counsel of God, Volume 1: God’s Mighty Acts in the Old Testament

by Richard C. Gamble

Publisher:

P&R

, 2009

Overview

This volume recounts God’s mighty acts in the Old Testament. It discloses the theology of the Old Testament within the organic, progressive, historical development of the Bible. Gamble blends a survey of the entire Old Testament with discussions of topics as diverse as the canon, days of creation, faith and reason, covenants, the Ten Commandments, Old Testament ecclesiology, the nature of God, justification, and Old Testament apologetics.

Contents

Top Highlights

“Theology may be more precisely defined as ‘the appropriation by the regenerated mind of that supernatural/natural information by which God has made himself the object of human knowledge.’” (Page 8)

“Theology is ‘the appropriation by the regenerated mind of that supernatural/natural information by which God has made himself the object of human knowledge.’” (Page 24)

“The objective stage of redemption consists of the biblical events themselves.” (Page 13)

“The Whole Counsel of God is written to continue discussions of the relationship between exegesis and hermeneutics, and the interrelationships of biblical, systematic, and historical theology. The Whole Counsel of God will attempt to meet the need for a comprehensive theology that is attuned to the methodological advantages of biblical theology, but will also combine that advantage with the strengths of historical and systematic theology.” (Page xxxiii)

“There is a theological problem with asserting an old earth, namely, that it requires mammalian death before Adam’s fall.” (Page 157)

Product Details

• Title: The Whole Counsel of God, Volume 1: God’s Mighty Acts in the Old Testament
• Author: Richard C. Gamble
• Series: The Whole Counsel of God
• Volume: 1
• Publisher: P&R
• Print Publication Date: 2009
• Logos Release Date: 2019
• Language: English
• Resources: 1
• Format: Digital › Logos Research Edition
• Subjects: Bible. O.T. › Theology; Theology, doctrinal; Reformed Church › Doctrines
• ISBNs: 9780875521916, 9781596381810, 9781596381827, 0875521916, 1596381817, 1596381825
• Resource ID: LLS:WHLCNSLTSTMNT01
• Resource Type: text.monograph.biblical-theology
• Metadata Last Updated: 2022-09-30T03:45:26Z

About Richard C. Gamble

Teaching with the kind of passion that students have said resembles the delivery of Black Baptist preaching, Dr. Gamble explains: When a student comes into a systematic theology class, he comes into holy ground. As Moses took off his sandals, so should we. It’s heavy and weighty, yet sweet and the stuff of life. While I do not give a sermon for my lectures, my hope is that the lectures will “preach.” Past director of the H. Henry Meeter Center for Calvin Studies, Dr. Gamble is an internationally renowned Calvin scholar who will contribute to the forthcoming Handbook for Calvin’s Institutes, one publication of a multi-volume commemorative series to be produced by Calvin500, an organization coordinating the Quincentenary celebration of the birth of John Calvin in 2009. He edited the fourteen-volume anthology, Articles on Calvin and Calvinism, and was contributing editor to Eerdmans’ Calvin’s Old Testament Commentaries. He has almost finished a massive two-volume critical edition of Calvin’s Latin commentary on Genesis that will be published in Geneva, and his book, Calvin and the Church, will soon be published as well. With both seminarians and laymen in mind, Dr. Gamble also is working with P & R Publishing on his three-volume systematic theology entitled, The Whole Counsel of God, the scope of which has been said to be incomparable to anything attempted in Reformed circles for more than 100 years. The work explores the relationships between exegesis and hermeneutics, and between Biblical, systematic, and historical theology. The first 864-page volume, God’s Mighty Acts in the Old Testament, has been released in June of 2009. A member of the Editorial Board of The Peter Martyr Library, Dr. Gamble is a prolific writer who has contributed to more than 75 publications as author and editor. In addition to the above, he has edited Pressing Toward the Mark: Essays Commemorating Fifty Years of the Orthodox Presbyterian Church; and penned representative articles such as “Christology in the Fourth Century” and “Hope” in Tabletalk, and “The Clash of King and Kirk” in The Practical Calvinist.