Teaching for today

Is there a crisis in the evangelicalism today? How did the church find itself in this state? What can be done about it now? Ranald Macaulay provokes answers to these pressing questions.

In this workshop Ranald Macaulay challenges us to not just look upon our sanctification as a passive thing but to also actively work at it.

With more people than ever studying and involved in Psychology, this is an important and highly relevant subject. In this workshop, psychiatrist Richard Winter expands his earlier lecture (Personal Freedom?).

Even though much of Western culture was built on Christian values, very few seem to be left in the public sector today. Against this backdrop Ranald Macaulay outlines the importance of Christians developing true Christian thinking.

Do our genes and our environment dictate our lives, or do we actually have personal freedom? Psychiatrist Richard Winter gives a helpful overview of different schools of thinking over the last 100 years before seeking to share the Biblical view of freedom and choice.

John Nevin was one of the most significant American theologians of the 19th century. The favourite student of Charles Hodge at Princeton University, he went on to become a professor of theology at the German Reformed Seminary at Mercersburg, Pennsylvania. He argued against the prevailing revivalist theology of Charles Finney and the individualism of his day. He helped Protestants nurture a high view of the Lord's Supper. He also worked alongside his close friend and colleague Philip Schaff to promote the vital importance of church history.

Ranald Macaulay introduces this series of lectures and workshops by looking at the foundational subject of what it is to be a Christian.

J. Gresham Machen was a distinguished scholar, incisive theologian, and committed churchman who fought higher criticism and co-founded two of the most important institutions of American Presbyterianism. He was the leading voice for Reformed thinking during the fundamentalist-modernist controversy of the early 20th Century. He served as Professor of New Testament at Princeton until the seminary was overtaken by liberals, leaving to establish Westminster Theological Seminary. Likewise, after years of resisting liberalism within the Presbyterian Church, Machen helped form the Orthodox Presbyterian Church.

In a fallen world how is it that unbelieving men and women are capable of great acts of kindness, can experience a measure of joy and happiness, and possess wonderful skills and talents? What should Christian believers think about this? How should these things affect the way we relate to our unbelieving neighbours and friends? The doctrine of common grace powerfully explains the world we live in.

Jonathan Edwards is arguably America's best known preacher and theologian, and one of the most influential evangelicals of all time. Under God his teaching was not only of a high intellectual calibre but was also used by the Lord in the widespread US revival known as the Great Awakening.Edwards is often called 'the last Puritan' and is described by J.I. Packer as "a Puritan born out of due time". Shortly before his early death Edwards was made president of the College of New Jersey, which would later become Princeton University.