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Christ the Revelation or Revealer? Brunner and Reformed Orthodoxy on the Doctrine of the Word of God

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  • Richard A. Muller

Muller discusses the views of Emil Brunner on the doctrine of Scripture and revelation in relation to the views of Reformed Orthodoxy. Does Brunner identify the Word of God with Scripture?

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The Incarnate Word of God

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  • Mark J. Larson

This article is about the revelation of God by the Son of God. The author looks at Hebrews 1:1-2 and John 1:18.

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Revelation

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  • J. W. Maris

This article looks at special revelation, and the variety of revelation we find in Scripture. This variety does not diminish the authority of Scripture.

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A Summary of God's Way of Revelation

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  • William H. Smith

This article discusses the two ways in which God reveals himself, especially in redemptive history.

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The Lord Told Me - I Think!

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  • Gary E. Gilley

This article examines the claim that God still reveals Himself outside scripture - the claim of extra revelation. The author shows that throughout church history the authority and sufficiency of scripture has been challenged. The word of God is sufficient revelation for believers.

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1 Corinthians 2:9-16 - How We Know the Things of God

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  • Peter Y. De Jong

This article looks at 1 Corinthians 2:9-16. The things of God are inaccessible to man by his own investigation; instead, they are revealed and communicated to us by the Spirit of God.

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Is the Holy Spirit Phase Three of God’s Word?

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  • John Piper

This article looks at the task of the Holy Spirit in directing attention and conviction toward the Word (Hebrews 1).

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Prophecy Today?

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  • D. Macleod

This article is about final revelation and Scripture. Prophecy today, truth and the supernatural, and Roman Catholism and Scripture is also discussed.

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God’s Revelation is Adaptation

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  • J. W. Maris

God’s revelation comes to man in words of man. This article discusses how God reveals himself and how we see the revelation of God in Scripture.

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God Breathes Out the Scriptures School of Theology Series: Lecture 3

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  • Derek Thomas

What is special revelation? God has used various means to disclose/reveal his truth to us. This article looks at the characteristics of special revelation, and what means God has used to reveal his truth (i.e., dreams, visions, theophanies, prophecy, etc.)

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How God’s Revelation Should Impact Me

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  • David Lipsy

What kind of impact should the revelation of God have on us? This article offers a number of considerations in this regard. We need to read, along with the guidance of the Holy Spirit, and we need to meditate, believe, and live.

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Knowing God from Scripture Only?

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  • Pieter K. A. De Boer

This article explains the relationship between general revelation and special revelation.

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The God Who Reveals Himself

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  • Jason P. Van Vliet

The only way that God can truly be known is through his revelation. This article explains how he reveals himself both in general revelation and special revelation.

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Listening for the Voice of God: How Does God Speak to His People Today?

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  • Jim Witteveen

Should Christians expect to hear a direct voice from God? This article looks at how God spoke with people in the Bible. It shows that today Christians cannot expect to hear the direct audible voice of God, but that God speaks through his special revelation.

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Self-Disclosure

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  • J. I. Packer

God revealed himself as Yahweh – the I AM. This article explains why God revealed himself in this way.

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John Owen on Communication from God

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  • J. I. Packer

How does God bring us to understand him, and to comprehend the world of spiritual reality? This article looks at John Owen's answer to this question: through the giving of revelation, the inspiration of Scripture, the authenticating of Scripture, the establishing of faith in Scripture, the interpreting of Scripture.

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Revelation: Scripture Is the Word of God

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  • J. I. Packer

The only way to know God is through his self-revelation. This article argues that this self-revelation is what constitutes the Bible.

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Survey Studies in Reformed Theology (2): Revelation - Divine Self-Disclosure

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  • Bob Burridge

This article looks at the way God has revealed Himself through general revelation and special revelation.

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Revelation, Inspiration, and Infallibility (3): God's Word Written

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  • Ronald L. Cammenga

This article looks at four different approaches to the inspiration of Scripture: denying inspiration, believing in partial inspiration, adding something extra to Scripture, or accepting Scripture as the inspired word of God. The author also discusses the relationship between inspiration and revelation, showing what it means to confess biblical inspiration.

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Revelation, Inspiration, and Infallibility (2): Revelation - General and Special

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  • Ronald L. Cammenga

This article focuses on God's revelation through both general revelation and special revelation. After examining the meaning of each, the author shows that the reason God provided man with general revelation was to leave no excuse for man's disbelief.

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Revelation, Inspiration, and Infallibility (1): Deus Dixit! God Has Spoken

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  • Ronald L. Cammenga

The only way in which God can be known is through His self-revelation. Man cannot get to know God through his own effort. God reveals Himself to man because of the covenant that He made with mankind. In this article the author highlights some modern threats to gaining this knowledge of God; namely, agnosticism, skepticism, rationalism, and mysticism.

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Can We Know God?

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  • Derrick Dalcher

Knowing God can only happen when God reveals Himself in Christ. Christ is the center of scripture; therefore, God's revelation is about Him. True knowledge of Him leads to salvation in Him.

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Ongoing Revelation (1)

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  • Peter Bloomfield

This is the first of two articles evaluating the claim that God gives believers today special revelation. This claim is a departure from believing that God's word is the means He uses to guide His church. This claim undermines the completeness of scripture and Christ as the full revelation of God.

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Ongoing revelation (2)

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  • Peter Bloomfield

This is the second of two articles evaluating the claim that God gives believers today special revelation. Working from the history of mysticism and Quakerism, the author shows how this claim undermines the sufficiency of scripture.

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Perspective On The Word Of God: The Media Of The Word Of God

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  • John M. Frame

This article shows that the Word of God comes to us through God's actions, human words, and through persons. The author discusses the relationship between this means of the revelation of God and the Bible.

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The Coming of God

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  • Geoffrey Thomas

God’s revelation is seen in man’s conscience, in nature, and through His word in the Old Testament. However, God’s revelation finds its completeness in the incarnation of Christ.

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The Doctrine of Inspiration Since the Reformation Part II: Changing Climates of Opinion

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  • William E. Nix

This article surveys the different challenges to the belief in the Scriptures as the Word of God since the time of the Reformation. It takes a look at the different attitudes and methods that are reflected in modern views of revelation, and the inspiration and authority of Scripture.

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Solid Ground – On Knowing God: The World and the Word

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  • J. I. Packer

In Chapter 1 the author explores what it means to know God. Knowing God is portrayed as the supreme gift of God’s grace, and the Bible is the means for knowing God.

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The doctrine of revelation in contemporary theology

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  • Robert Preus

The modern Biblical Theology movement and Neo-orthodoxy gave much attention to the doctrine of revelation. How can the position of modern theology best be described? How should it be assessed? This article weighs in.

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Can the Bible Be Completely Inspired by God and Yet Still Contain Errors? A Response to Some Recent "Evangelical" Proposals

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  • Gregory K. Beale

Beale reacts to the view of evangelical colleagues that God has inspired all of Scripture in such a way that the marks of human fallibility are woven into it. As background to his argument against such a position, Beale notes that the apostle John was given the same prophetic commission to write the Word of God as Ezekiel was.

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Revelation: Forbidden to Add to or Subtract From God's Word

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  • James A. Laning

Two sins can be committed against the revelation of God: subtracting from His revelation, and adding to His revelation. This article discusses both of these sins and the ways in which they are committed.

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Bavinck on the Doctrine of God’s Knowability

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  • Cornelis P. Venema

This article looks at Herman Bavinck's view of the knowability of God. The author also looks at the "proofs" for God's existence. 

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Bavinck on Special Revelation

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  • Cornelis P. Venema

This article looks at Herman Bavinck's view of special revelation, Jesus Christ as the Word of God, and Scripture.

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The God of Word

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  • John Woodhouse

This article looks at Scripture in order to establish that the biblical faith must be "word-shaped," for it is the Word of God that creates and nurtures faith.

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Bavinck on the Doctrine of General and Special Revelation

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  • Cornelis P. Venema

This article looks at Bavinck's view of general revelation and special revelation.

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The Bible and History

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  • Merrill C. Tenney

In this paper Tenney considers the relation of the Bible to history.

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A Major Ecumenical Problem – Revelation, Tradition, and Church

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  • Charles M. Horne

The Dogmatic Constitution on Divine Revelation of Vatican II pretends to be an announcement of the gospel. But it wants to be a continuation of the Council of Trent and Vatican I. This paper is a critical investigation of the position taken by Rome on the issue of revelation.

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Revelation (2): The God-Breathed Writings

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  • James A. Laning

How is it possible that the Bible does not contain errors, since it is written by imperfect humans? This article answers this question by pointing to the nature of the Bible as God’s word. The Bible is inspired by God, and its authors wrote it through the power of the Holy Spirit. The Bible is infallible since it comes from God, who cannot err.

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Revelation (1)

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  • James A. Laning

How is it possible that some people believe in Christ while others do not? This article answers this question by discussing how God’s revelation is a particular revelation. God reveals himself through Christ and the word particularly to those He wills to save. Through the Holy Spirit God gives understanding of the word to those whom He chooses.

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Bavinck on the Doctrine of Inscripturated Special Revelation

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  • Cornelis P. Venema

This article looks at Bavinck's explanation of the doctrine of special revelation. Included in this survey are the subjects of inspiration and the infallibility of the Bible.

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The Problem of Revelation in Eighteenth-Century Germany: With Particular Reference to Lessing (Continued)

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  • Leonard de Moor

This article is a continuation of a study of Lessing's contribution to the understanding of revelation. Particular attention is given to his "Education of the Human Race" (1780). Lessing brought a new scientific approach to revelation.

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The Authority of Scripture: Critical Judgments in Biblical Perspective

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  • E. Earle Ellis

What is Scripture's own estimate of its authority? The essay reflects on the nature of revelation, the locus of biblical revelation, and the scope of revelation in Scripture.

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The Idea of Revelation in the Early Church (Part 1)

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  • Leonard de Moor

How did the early church view the revelation of God? The article discusses the views of the second-century apologists and their Christian contemporaries. The apologists claimed that the Scriptures contained knowledge unattainable by the human mind; a special inspiration was needed.

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The Idea of Revelation in the Early Church (Part 2)

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  • Leonard de Moor

How did the early church view God's revelation? This article examines what Irenaeus wrote on this topic, mainly in his work Against Heresies.

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The Visual and Auditory Presentation of God on Mount Sinai

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  • Sunny Wang

Accounts of theophany are recorded in Exodus 19-Exodus 20 and Deuteronomy 4-Deuteronomy 5. This study argues that the senses of sight and hearing are used together to attain knowledge of God and that this interrelation between seeing and hearing is intended.

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