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- Herausgeber: Crossway
- Kategorie: Religion und Spiritualität
- Serie: Crossway Short Classics
- Sprache: Englisch
- Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2020
Thomas Chalmers was a Scottish Presbyterian minister who served most of his life at St. John's parish in Glasgow—a congregation that was both the largest and the poorest congregation in the city. Known for his extensive charitable work in caring for the poor and downtrodden, Chalmers was also an astute theologian. One of his most notable works is The Expulsive Power of a New Affection, in which Chalmers inspires his readers to remove the tangles of sin through the expulsive power of a new affection—desiring God. As a result of the fall, human feelings of love are often misplaced on the creation rather than the Creator. This classic work of the faith reorients our affections toward him.
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The Expulsive Power of a New Affection
The Crossway Short Classics Series
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Charles Spurgeon
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The Expulsive Power of a New Affection
Thomas Chalmers
The Expulsive Power of a New Affection
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First printing 2020
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Scripture quotations are from the King James Version of the Bible.
Paperback ISBN: 978-1-4335-7067-4 ePub ISBN: 978-1-4335-7070-4 PDF ISBN: 978-1-4335-7068-1 Mobipocket ISBN: 978-1-4335-7069-8
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Names: Chalmers, Thomas, 1780–1847, author.
Title: The expulsive power of a new affection / Thomas Chalmers.
Description: Wheaton, Illinois: Crossway, 2020. | Series: The Crossway short classics series | Includes bibliographical references. |
Summary: “This book is a timeless treasure exhorting readers to remove the tangles of sin through the expulsive power of a new affection—desiring God”—Provided by publisher.
Identifiers: LCCN 2020005204 (print) | LCCN 2020005205 (ebook) | ISBN 9781433570674 (trade paperback) | ISBN 9781433570681 (pdf) | ISBN 9781433570698 (mobi) | ISBN 9781433570704 (epub)
Subjects: LCSH: Love—Religious aspects—Christianity—Sermons. | God—Worship and love—Sermons. | Sermons, English—19th century. | Bible. Epistles of John—Sermons.
Classification: LCC BX9178.C52 E9 2020 (print) | LCC BX9178.C52 (ebook) | DDC 248.4/852—dc23
LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2020005204
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2020-08-03 03:09:17 PM
Contents
Foreword by John Piper
Series Preface
Biography of Thomas Chalmers
The Expulsive Power of a New Affection
Foreword
Who was Thomas Chalmers (1780–1847)? Converted to Christ while already in the pastorate (1810) in Kilmany, Scotland, Chalmers eventually became professor of moral philosophy in the University of St. Andrews, and then professor of theology in the University of Edinburgh.
His influence in the church and politics in Scotland was so extensive that according to geologist Hugh Miller, Chalmers “may be said rather to have created than to have belonged to an era.”1 And William Gladstone, Britain’s foremost political leader of the nineteenth century, called him “a man greatly lifted out of the region of mere flesh and blood.”2 On Chalmers’s death, one estimate was that half the population of Edinburgh attended his funeral (p. 764).
During his professorship at St. Andrews, his passion for global missions was so inspiring that six of his best students dedicated themselves to missions, resulting in 141 years of combined missionary service.3
Though he was influential in geology and astronomy, Christian apologetics, relief for the poor, economics, Calvinistic orthodoxy, and ecclesiastical leadership (helping create the Free Church of Scotland), nevertheless, it was the force of his words that gave effect to all of these engagements. According to A. C. Cheyne, his oratorical power “bordered on wizardry” (p. 764). William Wilberforce wrote in his diary in 1817, “All the world wild about Dr. Chalmers” (p. 762). But why? Princeton’s James Alexander asked John Mason on his return from Scotland why Chalmers was so effective, and Mason replied, “It is his blood-earnestness.”4
As you read this most famous sermon of Chalmers, “The Expulsive Power of a New Affection,” I suggest you let that tone—blood-earnestness—shape the way you read. That is, don’t think he is trifling. He is very serious. Joyfully serious.
I recall once being asked the trick question, If you had access to all the latest machinery in a sophisticated science lab, what would be the most effective way to get all the air out of a glass beaker? One ponders the possible ways to force the air out. Then the answer is given: fill it with water.
That is the point of this sermon. It is intended as an illumination of 1 John 2:15, “Love not the world, neither the things that are in the world. If any man love the world, the love of the Father is not in him.”
Chalmers poses for himself the question, How shall the human heart be freed from its love for the world? (How shall the air be removed from the beaker?) This “love” is not a duty one performs. It is a delight one prefers. It is an affection before it is a commitment.
He says there are two ways one might seek to remove this controlling affection from the heart. One is to show that the world is not worthy of our affection and will let us down in the end. (This argument corresponds to using a pump to suck the air out of the beaker.) The other is to show that God is vastly more worthy of the heart’s attachment, thus awakening a new and stronger affection that displaces the former affection for the world. (This corresponds to pouring water into the beaker to displace the air.) Hence, “the expulsive power of a new affection.”
Here’s how Chalmers states his purpose:
