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368<br />

"'Lloyd-Jones, Preaching and Preachers. p. 238.<br />

p. 243.<br />

21 Lloyd-3ones, The Presentation. p. 4.<br />

22Lloyd-Jones, Preaching and Preachers. p. 131.<br />

25 Ibid. p. 76,138,227.<br />

p. 87.<br />

"Lloyd-Jones, Authority. p. 62. (Cf. "Let us go<br />

on with our practical efforts and let us go on with our<br />

study, but God forbid that we should rely upon them. . . .<br />

Let us realise that even that [the best knowledge and<br />

skill], without the authority and the power of the Spirit,<br />

is of no value at all." Ibid. p. 92).<br />

"James Stewart, Why I Believe. (Crieff, Scotland:<br />

The Book Department of St. Ninian's, 1963), p. 14.<br />

"Ibid. p. 13.<br />

'Stewart, Heralds of God. (London: Hodder and<br />

Stoughton, 1946), P. 70.<br />

"Stewart, Why I Believe. p. 14.<br />

'Stewart, Heralds of God. p. 108.<br />

"'Ibid. p. 46.<br />

p. 59. In order to provide this balance,<br />

Stewart suggested a preacher follow the themes of the<br />

Christian year. Ibid. p. 110,11.<br />

p. 61.<br />

"Stewart, A Faith to Proclaim. (London: Hodder<br />

and Stoughton, 1953).<br />

"Stewart, Heralds of God. p. 11.<br />

"Ibid. p. 25-27,42-44,50,51.<br />

"Ibid. p. 105-06.<br />

"Twenty percent of this group's lecturers stated<br />

"relevance" as their key hermeneutical principle. This<br />

percentage is much higher than 'Lloyd-Jones'+'Rahner<br />

lecturers'.<br />

"Stewart, Heralds of God. p. 7.<br />

14 °Ibid. p. 194,201,205,210,217,219.<br />

p. 190. Cf. Ibid. p. 20,26,32,35,41,47,<br />

56. Also A Faith to Proclaim. p. 12,116.<br />

"Stewart, Heralds of God. p. 103.<br />

p. 119.<br />

p. 119,20.<br />

"Ibid. p. 149.<br />

p. 142.<br />

"47"If, then, there can be salvation and hence also<br />

faith everywhere in history, then a supernatural revelation<br />

of God to mankind must have been at work everywhere in the<br />

history of the human race. It must have been at work in<br />

such a way that it actually touches every person and effects<br />

salvation in him through faith, every person who does not<br />

close himself to this revelation by a failure to believe<br />

through his own fault." Rahner, Foundations of Christian<br />

Faith. Translated by William V. Dych. (London: Darton,<br />

Longman and Todd, 1978), p. 148.<br />

As discussed elsewhere, both Lloyd-Jones and<br />

Tillich give a pre-eminence to Jesus Christ, but a priority<br />

not quite as exclusive as Stewart and Rahner. Lloyd-Jones<br />

elevates the Bible to a second position rivaling Jesus as

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