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The new book God without Passions: a Primer – A Practical and Pastoral Study of Divine Impassibility by Samuel Renihan, that we’ve previously announced, is now available from the publisher, Reformed Baptist Academic Press (RBAP), at a lower price:

God without Passions – a Primer: A Practical & Pastoral Study of Divine Impassibility” by Sam Renihan

[RBAP: $7 | AMZ: $10.79 | £7.63 ]

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As previously announced:

God without Passions – a Primer: A Practical & Pastoral Study of Divine Impassibility” by Sam Renihan

[ $11.99 | £7.63 ]

Description:

Pastor Samuel Renihan

This book deals with something that you may have never even heard of, the doctrine of divine impassibility. Impassibility is not a word often used in sermons. Even when people are studying systematic theology, impassibility tends to receive a small amount of attention. So what is it? And why is this important? Divine impassibility is defined as follows: God does not experience emotional changes either from within or effected by his relationship to creation. This is a scriptural truth, and a very important part of our system of theology. In chapter two of our Confession, “Of God and the Holy Trinity,” we read the following in paragraph 1: The Lord our God is but one only living and true God; whose subsistence is in and of himself, infinite in being and perfection; whose essence cannot be comprehended by any but himself; a most pure spirit, invisible, without body, parts, or passions. But is this doctrine important? Yes. This is the doctrine of God. If there is a part of theology about which we should be especially careful and sensitive, it should be the doctrine of God. God is “without . . . passions”? If you are thinking, “I’m not really sure what that phrase means,” then you are not alone. It has become increasingly clear that many in our day are lacking study and knowledge in this area. Given these factors, we can conclude that we need teaching on this subject. It would be a mistake to jump straight into asserting the doctrine of divine impassibility and defending it. It is one piece in a system of doctrine. It stands upon and connects to many other facets of the doctrine of God. So what we need to do in our study is to build up to it. By doing so, we will appreciate not only the doctrine itself, but also just why it cannot be tampered with. So, to start from the ground up, we need to go where the doctrines grow, the Holy Scriptures.

Details:

Paperback: 112 pages Publisher: RBAP Product Dimensions: 5.5 x 0.3 x 8.5 inches

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Sam Renihan:

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Back in January, I announced God without Passions: A Reader. The intent of this book was to provide access to original source writings from the 16th and 17th centuries relevant to the classical confessional Reformed doctrine of divine impassibility. While that book included an introduction designed to help understanding and processing the authors’ arguments, there were no further comments on the content of the writers.

Coming out very soon from RBAP, God without Passions: A Primer is a new (and much shorter) book that explains the doctrine of divine impassibility as it is drawn from the Scriptures and understood in the contexts of the human and divine natures. God without Passions: A Primer has been peppered (and salted) with quotations from Reformed authors (their language updated), written with a personal and pastoral perspective, and it includes study questions at the end of each of the five chapters. The chapters are:

Impassibility’s Foundation

The Human Half of the Equation

Eminence and Negation

Perfections and Incarnation

Personal Applications and Pastoral Implications

God without Passions: A Primer would be a great book for personal study, and even better for group study. I hope you enjoy it!…

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The new 2015 Journal of the Institute of Reformed Baptist Studies (JIRBS), that we previously announced, is now available from Reformed Baptist Academic Press (RBAP) for $12. 

[ RBAP: $12 | AMZ: $18 | £11.94 ]

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Find out more about this JIRBS by listening to podcast interview #82 with Dr. James Renihan.

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Journal of the Institute of Reformed Baptist Studies 2015 article titles

Sneak peek at some upcoming Journal of the Institute of Reformed Baptist Studies (JIRBS) titles

Upcoming Journal of the Institute of Reformed Baptist Studies [JIRBS] Tease

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[ $9.99 | £6.63 ]

Description:

This book is offered with the intent to further the discussion on covenant theology among Baptists and paedobaptists. It in no way pretends to be a fully worked-out Baptist covenant theology. It contains essays by thirteen different authors who do not necessarily advocate the fine details of every contribution, something that is quite common with multiple-author works.

After the Preface and Introduction, the first main section is historical. It seeks to set a historical-theological context for the reader.

The second section of this work discusses various biblical issues related to covenant theology – the Abrahamic Covenant, the Old and New Covenants, Acts 2 and Colossians 2.

The third section of the book, though the shortest, seeks to put things together, though certainly not in any comprehensive sense.

It is my hope that this work will both challenge and instruct Baptist readers and introduce paedobaptists into part of the thought-world of Baptist covenant theology.

The Editor Richard C. Barcellos, Ph.D. Grace Reformed Baptist Church Palmdale, CA

Details:

Print Length: 528 pages Publisher: RBAP (February 3, 2015) Text-to-Speech: Enabled

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Previous post on the book | Interview with the editor

 Related:

Out Now: ‘Recovering a Covenantal Heritage: Essays in Baptist Covenant Theology’ [RBAP]

[Upcoming from RBAP] Recovering a Covenantal Heritage: Essays in Baptist Covenant Theology + Preface + Intro

$22 from RBAP.net: ‘Recovering a Covenantal Heritage: Essays in Baptist Covenant Theology’

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The new book, ‘God Without Passions: A Reader’ edited by Samuel Renihan, that we previously announced is now available from Reformed Baptist Academic Press (RBAP) for $14! (Yes, it is for sale even though the page currently says, “COMING SOON”.)

God without Passions: A Reader Edited by Samuel Renihan [ RBAP: $14.00 | AMZ: $21.84 / £14.91 ]

Description:

Subtitled A Reader, the primary purpose of the material presented in this book is to familiarize the reader with sixteenth- and seventeenth-century English language sources pertinent to the doctrine of divine impassibility, particularly for those who confess with the Reformed confessions that God is “without body, parts, or passions.” If this material is studied carefully, the reader will encounter an excellent and diverse array of writings that touch on this subject.

230 pages Published 2015

If you are interested in the doctrine of God, and especially in understanding how sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Reformed theologians argued for divine impassibility, this book is for you. Samuel Renihan has collected the words of sixty theologians from the Reformation and post-Reformation era in order to help readers understand the classical doctrine of divine impassibility which is sorely misunderstood in our day.

Endorsements:

From the back of the book:

Full endorsements from the inside of the book:

“Abandonment or modification of the classical doctrine of divine impassibility has played no small part in the evangelical drift toward modified process theism. Denying passions of God is not uncommonly thought odd, or worse, biblically repugnant. Indeed, even many who continue to confess that God is impassible in some sense insist that the doctrine must now be reconceived so as to cohere with an affirmation of passion and emotional change in God. But such a revision comes at the high cost of severing impassibility of its organic bond to other divine attributes such as simplicity, pure actuality, and immutability.

Samuel Renihan’s reader is a welcome contribution that sheds much light on precisely what our Reformed forebears intended by denying passions of God. These selections set forth impassibility in its proper theological context as an entailment of God’s simplicity, pure actuality, and immutability. The picture that emerges is not one of a distant and uncaring God, but of God as so absolutely perfect in being that he cannot be moved to any greater perfection of love, mercy, or hatred of sin. This volume should aid greatly in the rehabilitation of an informed confession of God without passions.”

James E. Dolezal Cairn University Author of God without Parts: Divine Simplicity and the Metaphysics of God’s Absoluteness

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“Christian teaching and theology must be derived always from the Scriptures alone. The Scriptures are the sole authority for what Christians should believe and teach as Christians. But this does not mean that there is nothing else that a Christian should do before he presumes to teach and preach the Bible. Exegetical theology precedes systematic theology authoritatively, but in other ways so also does historical theology. Of course, it does not precede it authoritatively, but it does and must precede it in an advisory capacity and as a counselor. The HCSB translates Proverbs 26:16 as follows: ‘In his own eyes, a slacker is wiser than seven men who can answer sensibly.’ Similarly, though God alone in his Word has authority over how a Christian should conduct himself, that same Christian does well to consult the seven wise men. He does foolishly when he does not. In our teaching and preaching also we must not be slackers, we must consult the wise men of historical theology. We also must not be historical snobs and take the really incredible position that our day is the wisest of all theologically. Really? Yes, we have advantages, but we also have incredible disadvantages. One of them is our modern tendency to historical snobbery.

For all these reasons, and especially in the difficult matter of the doctrine of God and divine impassibility, we are indebted to Sam Renihan for not being a slacker himself and giving us the massive work compiled in this book. He has given us the views of the ‘seven wise men’ with regard to divine impassibility. We do well to pay close attention.”

Sam Waldron Dean of Covenant Baptist Theological Seminary Pastor of Grace Reformed Baptist Church of Owensboro, KY

More endorsements…

  Also see the Table of Contents, Seventeenth-Century Dictionary Entries Related to Impassibility, and Erratum.

 Related:

New Book: ‘God Without Passions: A Reader’ edited by Samuel Renihan

Upcoming Book: ‘God without Passions, A Reader’ edited by Samuel Renihan [RBAP]

Out Now: ‘Recovering a Covenantal Heritage: Essays in Baptist Covenant Theology’ [RBAP]

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The book that Sam Renihan filled us in on, just days ago, is now available from Amazon (“hopefully on sale at RBAP site by Jan 28″ which will be where you can get it for less, but for those who can’t wait):

God without Passions: A Reader Edited by Samuel Renihan [ $21.84 | £14.91 ]

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Description:

The primary purpose of the material presented in this book is to familiarize the reader with sixteenth- and seventeenth-century English language sources pertinent to the doctrine of divine impassibility, particularly for those who confess with the Reformed confessions that God is “without body, parts, or passions.” If this material is studied carefully, the reader will encounter an excellent and diverse array of writings that touch on this subject.

Here is a portion of the foreword by Carl R. Trueman:

In our own day, the battle for the Bible continues. Yet there is another debate which is also happening: that over the doctrine of God. This second debate, while less obviously significant for the church, is likely just as important in the long run. If history can be a guide to how things will develop, then that of revisionists in this area is not a happy one. And thus it behooves all churches to pay careful attention both to their confessional standards, the rationale for the same, and the revisions which are being proposed. I myself reviewed positively a revisionist work a few years ago; subsequent reading and reflection has led me to believe I should have been far more critical.

In this context, this reader fulfills a most useful purpose because it presents an overview of relevant thought on the doctrine of God. Given that the classical Reformed understanding of God took centuries to fine-tune, it is most helpful to have key texts gathered in one volume as this will help both inform pastors and lay-people of the tradition and also point towards the rationale for that tradition and hint at the problems involved in the alternatives.

It will hopefully also serve those who are tempted by the revisions or are themselves engaged in such. Peter Taylor Forsyth once commented that every theological teacher should reflect on what his teaching would look like, or where it would lead, in two generations’ time. When it comes to modifying the doctrine of God, the story thus far would indicate that minor revisions at one point in time become major heterodoxies a few decades later. Let us hope and pray that such is not proven to be the case in our grandchildren’s day.

Details:

Paperback: 234 pages Publisher: RBAP (January 16, 2015) Product Dimensions: 6 x 0.5 x 9 inches

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Also see Seventeenth-Century Dictionary Entries Related to Impassibility

 Related:

Upcoming Book: ‘God without Passions, A Reader’ edited by Samuel Renihan [RBAP]

Of Passions [Bob Gonzales & James Renihan]

Samuel & Micah Renihan On Reformed Baptist Covenant Theology & Biblical Theology