Study of the First Epistle of John by Robert Law
Today’s free book is an introduction to the First Epistle of John by Robert Law, then Professor of New Testament Literature and Exegesis at Knox College, Toronto. This public domain title was digitised from the copy held in Spurgeon’s College library.
Robert Law [1860-1919], The Tests of Life. A Study of the First Epistle of St. John, 2nd edn. Edinburgh: T & T Clark, 1909. Hbk. pp.422. [Click here to visit the download page for this title]
Table of Contents
- Preface
- Style and Structure
- The Polemical Aim
- The Writer
- The Doctrine of God as Life and Light
- The Doctrine of God as Righteousness and Love
Escursus on the Correlation of Righteousness and Love - The Doctrine of Christ
- The Witness to the Doctrine of Christ (with appended Note on χρῑσμα)
- The Doctrine of Sin and the World
- The Doctrine of Propitiation
- Eternal Life
- THe Test of Righteousness
- The Test of Love
- The Test of Belief (with appended Note on πιστεύειν)
- The Doctrine of Assurance
- THe Growth of Christian Experience
- Eschatology (with appended Note on Antichrist)
- The Relation of the Epistle to the Fourth Gospel
- Note on γινώσκειν and εἰδέναι
- Notes
- Indexes
Main image: John the Apostle, detail of the mosaic in the Basilica of San Vitale, Ravenna, 6th century. Image credit: Richard Mortel