Christ Manifested - Couverture souple

Fletcher, John

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0900329130 ISBN 13 : 9780900329135

Editeur : Rushworth Literature Ltd, 1968

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

Christ Manifested is a book by 18th century Christian scholar John Fletcher, who expresses his views on the manifestations of God through Christ, and how He might manifest Himself.

Fletcher conducts a thorough examination of the Biblical canon, so that we may know what to expect when Christ returns. He analyzes and explains passages of the Bible which indicate the possible characteristics of the savior returned, and discusses what qualities Jesus would expound to a witness or witnesses.

John Fletcher proposes that God or Christ regularly reappears to individuals. These situational appearances are each significant, for their purpose varies according to the witness and to the circumstances. For example, sinners on the brink of damnation may encounter God or Jesus, who delivers a final warning: change their ways, or enter the abyss.

Realizing that many readers would be skeptical that God appears quite frequently, Fletcher spends the latter portions of his book listing the various manifestations of God in both the Old and New Testaments. He argues that these divine experiences are not isolated to antiquity, but continue to occur to various believers or sinners to the present day.

The return of the Lord has accordingly been written or predicted in many books. However it is John Fletcher's early work that set the tone, inspiring many preachers, scholars and Christian authors to follow with his definitive adherence to the Bible's wisdom; that Christ can and does return to reveal himself to select individuals.

Biographie de l'auteur

Born in Switzerland in 1729, and educated in that country, John Fletcher showed a zeal for the things of God from his earliest years. Straight after his ordination in March 1757, this likeable young man—not yet thirty years of age—offered himself to John Wesley as an itinerant colleague for three busy years. Then, deciding that the time had come for him to minister from the base of a settled pastorate, he selected little Madeley as his future home. For twenty-five years, from 1760, Fletcher laboured here. He did not cease to preach against the very things that were daily joys for the parishioners in Madeley: drunkenness, orgies, bull-baiting, and general immorality! Within two years, Madeley had changed perceptively! Throughout the whole of the ministerial life of John Fletcher, he knew remarkable spiritual power in preaching; there is little doubt that he was anointed with divine unction and spoke in the demonstration of the Holy Spirit. Sometimes his preaching would contain prophetic utterances of apostolic quality. On one occasion he turned aside from his message to foretell—with great accuracy—the French Revolution; this long-drawn-out terror did not begin to take place until four years after his death. His death in 1785, at the age of 55, was untimely and premature; he had lived like a flame of fire but had burned out more quickly than was expected. Believers of today would suffer no loss if they had the same charity, graciousness, and clarity of thought that were the daily companions of the Reverend John Fletcher.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Rushworth Literature Ltd
• Date d'édition: 1968
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0900329130
• ISBN 13: 9780900329135
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 96
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible