Offering and Embracing Christ

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Author(s): John Biegel
Publisher: Reformation Heritage
Price: $2.99       (Nov 20-21)

“John Biegel now adds his own name to a growing list of authors who, in the past few decades, have unearthed the riches of the Marrow tradition and its emphases on the fullness of Christ that lies at the heart of the gospel and the free and universal way in which he is to be offered in its proclamation.”—Sinclair Ferguson, author of The Whole Christ

The free offer of the gospel and saving faith were central issues in the Marrow controversy of the mid-eighteenth century. In Offering and Embracing Christ, John Biegel finds an unlikely stronghold of Marrow theology in the Established Church of Scotland: John Colquhoun.

Learn to embrace assurance, justification, and repentance in Christ from this modern Marrow man.

Foreword by Sinclair Ferguson.

Contents:
Acknowledgments
Abbreviations
Introduction
PART I: HISTORICAL BACKGROUND
1. Theological and Ecclesiastical Context
2. A Biographical Sketch of John Colquhoun
PART II: OFFERING CHRIST: THE DOCTRINE OF THE GOSPEL OFFER
3. The Gospel Offer in Marrow Theology
4. The Gospel Offer in Colquhoun’s Theology
PART III: EMBRACING CHRIST: THE DOCTRINE OF CONVERSION
5. Saving Faith and Assurance in Marrow Theology
6. Saving Faith and Assurance in Colquhoun’s Theology
7. Faith, Justification, and Repentance in Marrow Theology
8. Faith, Justification, and Repentance in Colquhoun’s Theology
Conclusion
Bibliography
Index

Endorsements
“In this excellent survey of Colquhoun’s theology, this neglect is remedied, and the reader is introduced to the finest of Scottish theology on topics of perennial relevance, such as the gospel offer, assurance, faith, and repentance. This work on Colquhoun is of significant academic and pastoral value.”
—Donald John MacLean, assistant professor of historical theology, Westminster Presbyterian Theological Seminary

“In this work, John Biegel offers the church a multilayered blessing. Most importantly, Biegel gives a clear theological account of how the gospel not only saves God’s people but also calms their inmost fears and uncertainties. In the gospel there is salvation and assurance; Biegel makes that plain to us. Dig just a little deeper, and Biegel helps introduce this extraordinary minister and theologian John Colquhoun. . . Dig even deeper still, and there is encouragement here for ministers of the gospel today. As Biegel shows us, Colquhoun’s ministry centered on the gospel, not on public acclaim or theological novelty, and in that ministry, the beauty of Jesus was seen.”
—Stephen G. Myers, professor of systematic and historical theology, Puritan Reformed Theological Seminary

“I am glad to commend John Biegel’s excellent study of the Marrow theology of John Colquhoun of Leith. In its pages you will come to know not only the life and preaching of a faithful Scottish minister from the past but even more so the marvelous sufficiency of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ for sinners.”
—William VanDoodewaard, academic dean and professor of church history, Greenville Presbyterian Theological Seminary