Life in a Risen Saviour

by Robert S. Candlish

Publisher:

A & C Black

, 1858

Overview

Few passages in the New Testament are as foundational to the Christian faith as 1 Corinthians 15, because it defends the Resurrection as central to the Christian faith. Paul faces the hard questions believers have wrestled with since the end of Jesus' earthly ministry: "What is the significance of a bodily resurrection?" "What if the resurrection was a big hoax?" In this classic volume, Robert S. Candlish presents nineteen discourses on 1 Corinthians 15. Candlish handles the text as a master preacher and skilled exegete, carefully illustrating the unity in Paul's argument within 1 Corinthians 15 as well as logical connection between other themes within the Apostle's letter. In addition to Paul's chapter on resurrection, Candlish offers expositions on John 11 and Isaiah 25. Explore the hope of resurrection and the promise of an eternal kingdom with one of Scotland's favorite preachers.

Key Features

• Twenty-one discoures on the Resurrection
• Covers every verse in 1 Corinthians 15
• Approachable and comprendible style

Contents

Top Highlights

“It has respect to one particular view of the resurrection; its bearing on the believer’s spiritual and eternal life.” (Page v)

“The articles of the creed on which he insisted were few and plain—‘Christ died; he was buried; he rose again.’” (Page 14)

“He puts them in remembrance of what it once was to them. He points out what it must still be to them, if they are not to stultify or falsify their whole Christian profession.” (Page 2)

“Yes; the apostle virtually says to the Corinthians, you may be thoroughly assured that none of those refinements on the gospel system—none of those fresh and original exhibitions of it, whether in the new light of a higher philosophy, or on the field of a wider and larger philanthropy—which have a certain attraction for you in certain modes of mind;—none of them have the element of stability; none of them have power to impart the security which the gospel itself, rightly apprehended, gives; in none of them can you stand at all so safely, or so surely, or so uprightly, as in it.” (Page 8)

“The resurrection of Christ and the general resurrection are so related to one another, that they stand or fall together. If Christ is risen, then the dead rise; if the dead rise not, then is Christ not raised.” (Page 35)

Product Details

• Title: Life in a Risen Saviour
• Author: Robert S. Candlish
• Publisher: Adam and Charles Black
• Publication Date: 1858
• Pages: 398

About Robert S. Candlish

Robert Smith Candlish (March 23, 1806 – October 19, 1873), Scottish divine, was born at Edinburgh, and spent his early years in Glasgow, where he graduated in 1823. During the years 1823-1826 he went through the prescribed course at the divinity hall, then presided over by Dr Stevenson MacGill. On leaving, accompanied a pupil as private tutor to Eton, where he stayed two years.