Benjamin Dean, Author at Great Truths

Author: Benjamin Dean

6. Good Out of Evil

How God Overcomes What He Permits

If sin and evil are not from God, yet fall within his allowance, and had no place in the original creation, how then does a good God relate his will to their existence?

5. A Deep Problem

Horrendous Evil in a Good God's World

No doubt, the presence everywhere of devastating and heart-breaking evil in a world created by a perfectly good God presents, from a human perspective, the deepest of all problems.

4. Bounded, Ordered, Governed

The Faithful Father Behind Every Event

How does the goodness of God actually take hold of a world so full of evil and disorder?

3. Evil Overruled

Why God Does Well Even When He Allows the Worst

Although sin rejects the goodness of God, and evil corrupts and opposes it, God's goodness remains such that our lives, though degraded, are not destroyed or dissolved.

2. All Things Work Together

The Certainty of God's Goodness in Suffering

Eventually, everything that exists and all that occurs contributes to the Christian's benefit and blessing.

1. Providence

How a Good God Governs Every Detail of His World

'Ignorance of providence is the ultimate of all miseries; the highest blessedness lies in the knowledge of it.'

5. More Than Information

How God's Revelation Reconciles, Summons, and Transforms

However it is assembled, however it reaches us, knowledge of God is never merely discovered or found.

4. Two Books, One Author

Nature, Scripture, and the Two Types of Revelation

3. Known Only Through Himself

Why We Cannot Reach God on Our Own

2. The Vocabulary of Disclosure

How the Bible Names God's Self-Revelation

The Bible contains a rich vocabulary of terms integral to its teaching about the revelation of God.

1. The God Who Reveals

What Revelation Is and Why It Changes Everything

The Bible makes colossal claims to knowledge. Its teaching about revelation treats the reasons for these claims and addresses various questions regarding them.

Christ the Lord: Jesus’ Person and Kingdom

Part 3: Suffering and Death

A useful and influential way of approaching the work of Christ was given particular prominence by Lutheran orthodoxy.

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