R. A. Finlayson

God In Three Persons

God is, and God is knowable. These two affirmations of faith form the foundation and inspiration of all religion. Christianity is distinctive in that it claims that God is known only in His self-revelation. In this self-revelation, however, the existence and nature of God are not subjects of…

God the Father

When we say that the First Person of the Trinity is the Father, we mean that He is the Fount of Deity [The phrase 'Fount of Deity' (often referred to by its Latin translation fons deitatis) is open to misunderstanding. It could be interpreted to mean that the other persons of the Trinity originate…

Modern Theology and the Christian Message

As we assemble at the beginning of yet another session in our training to minister the gospel of Jesus Christ, we must be deeply conscious that the gospel we are called upon to minister is radically different from that taught and accepted in most of the theological colleges of our land. In that…

The Holy Spirit in the Life of the Christian

Here we study the subjective work of the Holy Spirit that perfects and consummates His objective work. He works in us what was wrought by Christ for us, and in the case of the believer the operations of the Spirit are effectual. These may be viewed in the following order, which is the logical…

The Person of Christ

We may well face at the outset the question so often asked: Is there any need for a presentation of the Person of Christ in theological terms? I can recall some years ago where a particularly close study had been given to a theological analysis of the Person of Christ at a meeting of the Tyndale…

The Terminology of the Atonement

The Latin dramatist Horace has given a rule of dramatic art to which John Calvin refers in our present context. It is that a god must not be introduced into the action unless the plot has got into such a tangle that only a god can unravel it. That is our apologia for thrusting a particular…

The Theology of the Lord's Day -The Christian Sabbath

Since the development of theology is a historical process, it becomes necessary, before we embark on a study of the theology of the Lord's Day, to sketch briefly the historical background of the observance of the Christian Sabbath. Whatever we may think of Sunday today, or its relevance to…