Word

by Yarnell, Malcolm B.

• ISBN13: 9781087780719
• ISBN10: 1087780713
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2025-03-04
• Publisher: B&H Books

Summary

Knowing, loving, and worshiping God is the call and privilege of every disciple of Jesus. Because all Christians are part of his royal priesthood, theology is not just for those teaching in the academy or serving in ministry vocations.

You are not simply setting out on a journey toward deeper knowledge. If theological study only results in knowing abstract truths about God, then we have not done theology well. Right theology invariably leads to right living and right worship, and this is our ultimate goal in these books and in this life.

This book focuses on God in Christ and his works of creation, humanity, and redemption. He is God made flesh, the revelation of God to us. To know Christ is to know God.

Word is the second volume of a three-part series entitled Theology for Every Person. The first volume, God, released in 2024 and focuses on God’s existence, nature, Persons, and attributes, and the forthcoming third and final volume, World, which explores God the Holy Spirit and the divine works of salvation, the church, and the end.  
 

Author Biography

Malcolm B. Yarnell III serves the churches of the Southern Baptist Convention as Research Professor of Theology at the Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary, as Managing Editor of the Southwestern Journal of Theology, and as a Member of the SBC Resolutions Committee. He also serves the Lakeside Baptist Church in Granbury, Texas as Teaching Pastor and is a Member of the Commission on Baptist Doctrine and Christian Unity with the Baptist World Alliance.

His most recent books are a biblical theology, Who Is the Holy Spirit? (Nashville, 2019), and a philosophical theology, John Locke’s “Letters of Gold” (Oxford, 2017). His most widely reviewed volumes include a biblical theology, God the Trinity (Nashville, 2016), an historical theology, Royal Priesthood in the English Reformation (Oxford, 2014), and a theological method, The Formation of Christian Doctrine (Nashville, 2007). Malcolm and his co-author, David S. Dockery, the President of Southwestern Seminary, just completed a major dogmatics volume, Special Revelation and Scripture (Nashville, forthcoming 2024).