by James Orr
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AS CENTRING IN THE INCARNATION BEING THE FIRST SERIES OF KERR LECTURES
"For of Him, and through Him, and unto Him, are all things. To Him be the glory for ever. Amen."—ROM. 11:36
THE "KERR LECTURESHIP" was founded by the TRUSTERS of the late Miss JOAN KERR, of Sanquhar, under her Deed of Settlement, and formally adopted by the United Presbyterian Synod in May 1886. In the following year, May 1887, the provisions and conditions of the Lectureship, as finally adjusted, were adopted by the Synod, and embodied in a Memorandum, printed in the Appendix to the Synod Minutes, p. 489. From these the following excerpts are here given:—"II. The amount to be invested shall be £3000. III. The object of the Lectureship is the promotion of the study of Scientific Theology in the United Presbyterian Church. The Lectures shall be upon some such subjects as the following, viz.:—A. Historic Theology—(1) Biblical Theology, (2) History of Doctrine, (3) Patristics, with special reference to the significance and authority of the first three centuries. B. Systematic Theology—(1) Christian Doctrine—(a) Philosophy of Religion, (b) Comparative Theology, (c) Anthropology, (d) Christology, (e) Soteriology, (f) Eschatology; (2) Christian Ethics—(a) Doctrine of Sin, (b) Individual and Social Ethics, (c) The Sacraments, (d) The Place of Art in Religious Life and Worship.… Farther, the Committee of Selection shall from time to time, as they think fit, appoint as the subject of the Lectures any important Phases of Modern Religious Thought, or Scientific Theories in their bearing upon Evangelical Theology. The Committee may also appoint a subject connected with the practical work of the Ministry as subject of Lecture, but in no case shall this be admissible more than once in every five appointments. IV. The appointments to this Lectureship shall be made in the first instance from among the Licentiates or Ministers of the United Presbyterian Church of Scotland, of whom no one shall be eligible who, when the appointment falls to be made, shall have been licensed for more than twenty-five years, and who is not a graduate of a British University, preferential regard being had to those who have for some time been connected with a Continental University. V. Appointments not subject to the conditions in Section IV. may also from time to time, at the discretion of the Committee, be made from among eminent members of the Ministry of any of the Nonconformist Churches of Great Britain and Ireland, America, and the Colonies, or of the Protestant Evangelical Churches of the Continent. VI. The Lecturer shall hold the appointment for three years. VIII. The Lectures shall be published at the Lecturer's own expense within one year after their delivery. IX. The Lectures shall be delivered to the Students of the United Presbyterian Hall. XII. The public shall be admitted to the Lectures.
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Table of Contents:
THE KERR LECTURESHIP
PREFACE TO THIRD EDITION
PREFACE TO FIRST EDITION
LECTURE I: THE CHRISTIAN VIEW OF THE WORLD IN GENERAL
-- APPENDIX TO LECTURE I: SKETCH OF THE CHRISTIAN VIEW
LECTURE II: THE CHRISTIAN VIEW AND ITS ALTERNATIVES
-- APPENDIX TO LECTURE II: THE PESSIMISM OF SCEPTICISM
LECTURE III: THE THEISTIC POSTULATE OF THE CHRISTIAN VIEW
-- APPENDIX TO LECTURE III: GOD AS RELIGIOUS POSTULATE
LECTURE IV: THE POSTULATE OF THE CHRISTIAN VIEW OF THE WORLD IN REGARD TO NATURE AND MAN
LECTURE V: THE POSTULATE OF THE CHRISTIAN VIEW IN REGARD TO THE SIN AND DISORDER OF THE WORLD
-- APPENDIX TO LECTURE V: THE OLD TESTAMENT DOCTRINE OF IMMORTALITY
LECTURE VI: THE CENTRAL ASSERTION OF THE CHRISTIAN VIEW: THE INCARNATION OF GOD IN CHRIST
-- APPENDIX TO LECTURE VI: THE SELF-CONSCIOUSNESS OF JESUS
LECTURE VII: HIGHER CONCEPT OF GOD INVOLVED IN THE INCARNATION—THE INCARNATION AND THE PLAN OF THE WORLD
LECTURE VIII: THE INCARNATION AND REDEMPTION FROM SIN
LECTURE IX: THE INCARNATION AND HUMAN DESTINY
APPENDIX: THE IDEA OF THE KINGDOM OF GOD
NOTES
-- NOTES TO LECTURE I
-- NOTES TO LECTURE II
-- NOTES TO LECTURE III
-- NOTES TO LECTURE IV
-- NOTES TO LECTURE V
-- NOTES TO LECTURE VI
-- NOTES TO LECTURE VII
-- NOTES TO LECTURE VIII
-- NOTES TO LECTURE IX