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Summary: A reader from Hamden, CT
Review: E.W. Kenyon truly has a way with communicating the depth of God's Word with simplicity. In this book, the story of man's redemption and the spiritual freedom wrought by Christ are clearly laid out for any child of God to understand. Throughout this book it is evident that Kenyon has a great love and respect for the Word of God. This is a book to read and re-read as your understanding of your position in Christ grows.Kenyon covers the reason for creation, man's treason, the dominion of death, man's need for a mediator, the sin bearer, the new birth, the family of God, the household of God, claiming your rights and many more topics. While many of these truths are expounded by many writers, few have communicated them as simply, as eloquently and as lovingly as E.W. Kenyon.
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Summary: The Foundations of Christian Belief and Practice
Review: In Joe McIntyre's book about Kenyon, he indicates that this book was John G. Lake's favorite book next to the Bible. This endorsement, by a contemporary who walked in extraordinary power and faithfulness, got me to buy the book, and I have not been disappointed. In this book, Kenyon builds Christian belief up chapter by chapter. This book contains a lot of revelation. For example, he brings some wonderful truths out of the book of Job in talking about man's need for a mediator. There is also a revelation about women taken from Genesis that has permanently changed for the better the way I look at my wife and women in general. What is so powerful about this book, however, is that it will cause you to take your faith out of self and place it in Christ. The Chapter on the New Birth really did a lot for me, and just got me to think more in the lines of believing in being born again and confessing and believing that into action instead of trying work and be good. It helped cure that nagging about being saved. The book builds and builds until at the end Kenyon displays what it would be like to think and act like Sons of God. Things to know:
1. A more descriptive title would have been something like "A Systematic Theology of Faith in Jesus" The family is not a major theme of the book, though it is the frame that he looks through.
2. Each chapter is short and ends with some study questions, making this a great book to work through with a class or new believer. Doing so would certainly be powerful.
3. Kenyon has an unusual style of writing-- the paragraphs are very short, often one sentence only. This gives more impact to what he says, but it can also be distracting to some. This is a wonderful book that if you can get a hold of the key truths will really help set you free in Christ, and develop a system of thinking that is more in line with God and less in line with man. I highly recommend it for deeper thinkers and people that *study* the Bible, or are searching for the Gospel that will bring power and life.
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Summary: The Foundations of Christian Belief and Practice
Review: In Joe McIntyre's book about Kenyon, he indicates that this book was John G. Lake's favorite book next to the Bible. This endorsement, by a contemporary who walked in extraordinary power and faithfulness, got me to buy the book, and I have not been disappointed. In this book, Kenyon builds Christian belief up chapter by chapter. This book contains a lot of revelation. For example, he brings some wonderful truths out of the book of Job in talking about man's need for a mediator. There is also a revelation about women taken from Genesis that has permanently changed for the better the way I look at my wife and women in general. What is so powerful about this book, however, is that it will cause you to take your faith out of self and place it in Christ. The Chapter on the New Birth really did a lot for me, and just got me to think more in the lines of believing in being born again and confessing and believing that into action instead of trying work and be good. It helped cure that nagging about being saved. The book builds and builds until at the end Kenyon displays what it would be like to think and act like Sons of God. Things to know:
1. A more descriptive title would have been something like "A Systematic Theology of Faith in Jesus" The family is not a major theme of the book, though it is the frame that he looks through.
2. Each chapter is short and ends with some study questions, making this a great book to work through with a class or new believer. Doing so would certainly be powerful.
3. Kenyon has an unusual style of writing-- the paragraphs are very short, often one sentence only. This gives more impact to what he says, but it can also be distracting to some. This is a wonderful book that if you can get a hold of the key truths will really help set you free in Christ, and develop a system of thinking that is more in line with God and less in line with man. I highly recommend it for deeper thinkers and people that *study* the Bible, or are searching for the Gospel that will bring power and life.
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Summary: The Big Picture
Review: In this remarkable work E.W. Kenyon lays out the basics of how we got here and why things are the way they are. He attempts and often succeeds in answering the big questions like why is there evil in the world if God is good. The quick answer- because while God is good He is also perfectly just, even to the devil. He does not take advantage of the devil. Adam committed high treason against God and handed over his God-given legal rights of dominion to the devil (see Gen. 1-3, Luke 4:6). This was a legal transaction and God would not violate His justice by simply anuuling the rights of dominion and authority the devil had legally procured.
Only now in Christ can creation be restored to the glory it was created for. Christ defeated the devil in such a way (on perfectly fair and legal grounds) that God was able to redeem creation from the devil without violating His perfect justice. No epic compares to this true story of Redemption wonderfully laid out by Kenyon.
In the process of unfolding the plan of redemption Kenyon also ventures into questionable waters. For some reason Kenyon believes that neither God nor the devil can do anything to man but through man. That God is limited by our faith and obedience (see pgs. 65, 194, 199). This is an interesting idea and perhaps it's true, but I can't find any Scriptural backing for it. And as far as I can tell, Kenyon doesn't attempt to give any. In light of this, I would prefer that this idea be spoken of as a possibility but not as a fact.
I also question one of the premises of the work- that God created humans out of a desire to fulfill the lonliness in His heart. Again, this is an interesting idea, but I don't see it clearly expressed in Scripture and I would prefer it spoken of as a possible explanation but not as an absolute fact.
I also question some of his understandings of Hell and the Holy Spirit as expressed in this work. Kenyon seems to take many leaps of logic and forms conclusions that MAY be true and expresses them as BEING true.
Regardless of these few disappointments, the value of the revelation captured in this work far outweighs the questionable areas. I think this would be an excellent book for a new believer IF they are being discipled and taught not to accept everything as fact even if it is presented as such.
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