Keswick's Authentic Voice: Sixty-Five Dynamic Addresses

Keswick's Authentic Voice: Sixty-Five Dynamic Addresses Delivered at the Keswick Convention 1875-1957

Most movements have roots reaching back into the era before their actual inception. So it is with the Keswick Convention. Long before the first gatherings in a tent erected in a field adjoining the grounds of St. Johnâ€™s Vicarage, Keswick, in 1875, which proved to be the initiation of the renowned annual assembly, the teachings concerning the â€œdeepen-ing of the spiritual lifeâ€ now associated with the name of Keswick had been both exemplified in the lives of Christian people of many races and generations, and set forth in books in various languages. But the most amazing phenomenon of Church history is the way in which vital doctrines have become forgotten and temporarily â€œlost.â€ It was so with the very central truth of the Christian faith, which was obscured and buried under the teachings and trappings of Rome until Martin Luther re-discovered it in the glorious phrase â€œjustified by faithâ€; and likewise the equally clear presentation in Scripture of the â€œlife more abundantâ€ in Christ has been strangely neglectedâ€”not only in mediaeval times, but right until the middle of the last century. Yet Luther himself had gone on from justification by faith to â€œthe fulness of the blessing of the Gospel of Christâ€; and in our own country a book published toward the end of the seventeenth century, by a Puritan divine, the Rev. Walter Marshall, contained all that Keswick later re-minted in present-day language. It is amazing that this obscure Fellow of Winchester College should have come through personal study of the Scriptures to so clear an understanding of an aspect of truth generally disregarded. His book has a cumbrous title, characteristic of those daysâ€”â€œThe Gospel Mystery of Sanctification, Opened in Sundry Practical Directions Suited Especially to the Cases of those who Labour under the Guilt and Power of Indwelling Sin.â€ This is, of course, customarily abbreviated to its first phraseâ€”The Gospel Mystery of Sanctification. Remarkable as this book is, its author had no idea of proclaiming anything new: his purpose was solely to present, simply and clearly, what the Scriptures have to say on the subject of sanctification. And his book ran through several editions. There was accordingly nothing at all original about the message of Keswick: yet it came with a freshness and vitality almost amounting to a new revelation from on high to a generation which had neglected this glorious fulness of the divine provision for holy living.
Country USA
Manufacturer CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
Binding Paperback
EANs 9781499115659
ReleaseDate 0000-00-00

Country	USA
Manufacturer	CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
Binding	Paperback
EANs	9781499115659
ReleaseDate	0000-00-00

Keswick's Authentic Voice: Sixty-Five Dynamic Addresses Delivered at the Keswick Convention 1875-1957

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