What Happened to Martin Lloyd-Jones? Theologies in Contrast, Part 4
In this fourth and final part of the series discussing Martin Lloyd-Jones’s ministry and theology, Pastor John gives a clear statement of Lloyd-Jones’s Reformed theology (as outlined by Robert Law in his book, The Tests of Life: A Study of the First Epistle of St. John), which may be summarized as “God must be righteous in all he does. He may be loving under certain circumstances.”
After a final comparison with Denney’s theology, Pastor John concludes, “It is not surprising that Lloyd-Jones’s preaching of the Law and God and judgment would not produce the joy and certainty for which he longed all his life.”
Excerpts read include those from Robert Law, The Tests of Life: A Study of the First Epistle of St. John, Being the Kerr Lectures for 1909 (Edinburgh, T&T Clark, 1909) and from James Denney, The Death of Christ, Revised and Enlarged Edition including The Atonement and the Modern Mind (London, Hodder and Stoughton, 1911).