The Fatherhood of God: Being the First Course of the Cunningham Lectures

by Robert S. Candlish

Publisher:

A & C Black

, 1865

Overview

The lectures contained in The Fatherhood of God were first delivered in 1864 as part of the Cunningham Lecture Series in Edinburgh, Scotland. Candlish revised the lectures for book form, adding detailed notes at the end of each lecture. The following lectures are included: • “The Original Relation of Man to God” • “The Fatherhood of God, as Manifested in the Person of Christ, the Incarnate Word” • “The Fatherhood of God, as Revealed and Known Before the Incarnation” • “The Teaching of Our Lord on His Own and His Brethren’s Sonship” • “The Manner of Entrance into the Relation; Adoption, as Connected with Regeneration and Justification” • “The Privileges and Obligations of Sonship”

Contents

Top Highlights

“It is in the book of Job, and there only, that the holy unfallen angels are spoken of or referred to as sons of God” (Page 123)

“The subject which I have chosen, with concurrence of the council, is the Fatherhood of God” (Pages 4–5)

“Wherefore, that this might be, the Word was made flesh, that he might make man capable of receiving the Deity.… From this it may be shewn that we are not by nature sons, but the Son in us; and again, that God is not our father by nature, but (the father) of the Word in us, in whom and through whom we cry, Abba, Father.” (Page xvi)

“To what extent was the fatherhood of God matter of human knowledge, or matter of divine revelation, before the coming of his son Jesus Christ in the flesh?” (Page 112)

“He would be our father, not as we are the fathers of our children, but as he is the father of his Son Jesus Christ” (Page 150)

Product Details

• Title: The Fatherhood of God: Being the First Course of the Cunningham Lectures
• Author: Robert S. Candlish
• Publisher: A & C Black
• Print Publication Date: 1865
• Logos Release Date: 2012
• Language: English
• Resources: 1
• Format: Digital › Logos Research Edition
• Subjects: God › Fatherhood; Children of God; Crawford, Thomas Jackson, 1812-1875 › Fatherhood of God
• Resource ID: LLS:FATHERHDGOD
• Resource Type: text.monograph.lecture
• Metadata Last Updated: 2022-02-12T03:12:42Z

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.