The Knowledge of The Holy 하나님을 바로 알자 - A. W. Tozer 에이든 토저

하나님을 바로 알자

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1983.7.1

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The Knowledge of The Holy

하나님의 속성과

그것이 그리스도인의 삶에 주는 의미

이 책은..

하나님을 바로 알자

거룩하신 하나님을 바로 알지 못하는 것이 오늘날 많은 문제의 근본 원인이다.

만일 하나님의 위엄을 다시 발견한다면 그 문제들이 쉽게 해결될 것이다.

하나님에 대한 우리의 이해가 잘못되어 있거나 부적절할 때에 우리의 삶을

건전하게 하거나 마음 자세를 바로하기는 불가능하다.

우리 삶에서 능력을 되찾기 원한다면 하나님을 올바로 알아야 할 것이다.

 

나의 평가

 

 

PREFACE

 

True religion confronts earth with heaven and brings eternity to bear upon time. The messenger of Christ, though he speaks from God, must also, as the Quakers used to say, ”speak to the condition” of his hearers; otherwise he will speak a language known only to himself. His message must be not only timeless but timely. He must speak to his own generation.

The message of this book does not grow out of these times but it is appropriate to them. It is called forth by a condition which has existed in the Church for some years and is steadily growing worse. I refer to the loss of the concept of majesty from the popular religious mind. The Church has surrendered her once lofty concept of God and has substituted for it one so low, so ignoble, as to be utterly unworthy of thinking, worshipping men. This she has done not deliberately, but little by little and without her knowledge; and her very unawareness only makes her situation all the more tragic.

The low view of God entertained almost universally among Christians is the cause of a hundred lesser evils everywhere among us. A whole new philosophy of the Christian life has resulted from this one basic error in our religious thinking.

With our loss of the sense of majesty has come the further loss of religious awe and consciousness of the divine Presence. We have lost our spirit of worship and our ability to withdraw inwardly to meet God in adoring silence. Modern Christianity is simply not producing the kind of Christian who can appreciate or experience the life in the Spirit. The words, ”Be still, and know that I am God,” mean next to nothing to the self-confident, bustling worshipper in this middle period of the twentieth century.

This loss of the concept of majesty has come just when the forces of religion are making dramatic gains and the churches are more prosperous than at any time within the past several hundred years. But the alarming thing is that our gains are mostly external and our losses wholly internal; and since it is the quality of our religion that is affected by internal conditions, it may be that our supposed gains are but losses spread over a wider field.

The only way to recoup our spiritual losses is to go back to the cause of them and make such corrections as the truth warrants. The decline of the knowledge of the holy has brought on our troubles. A rediscovery of the majesty of God will go a long way toward curing them. It is impossible to keep our moral practices sound and our inward attitudes right while our idea of God is erroneous or inadequate. If we would bring back spiritual power to our lives, we must begin to think of God more nearly as He is.

As my humble contribution to a better understanding of the Majesty in the heavens I offer this reverent study of the attributes of God. Were Christians today reading such works as those of Augustine or Anselm a book like this would have no reason for being. But such illuminated masters are known to modern Christians only by name. Publishers dutifully reprint their books and in due time these appear on the shelves of our studies. But the whole trouble lies right there: they remain on the shelves. The current religious mood makes the reading of them virtually impossible even for educated Christians.

Apparently not many Christians will wade through hundreds of pages of heavy religious matter requiring sustained concentration. Such books remind too many persons of the secular classics they were forced to read while they were in school and they turn away from them with a feeling of discouragement.

For that reason an effort such as this may be not without some beneficial effect. Since this book is neither esoteric nor technical, and since it is written in the language of worship with no pretension to elegant literary style, perhaps some persons may be drawn to read it. While I believe that nothing will be found here contrary to sound Christian theology, I yet write not for professional theologians but for plain persons whose hearts stir them up to seek after God Himself.

It is my hope that this small book may contribute somewhat to the promotion of personal heart religion among us; and should a few persons by reading it be encouraged to begin the practice of reverent meditation on the being of God, that will more than repay the labor required to produce it.

A. W. Tozer

 

 

 

• 목차보기

1. 하나님을 올바로 생각해야 하는 이유
2. 헤아릴 수 없이 무한하신 하나님
3. 하나님의 속성:하나님께 해당하는 것
4. 거룩하신 삼위일체
5. 하나님의 자존성
6. 하나님의 자기 충족성
7. 하나님의 영원성
8. 하나님의 무한성
9. 하나님의 불변성
10. 하나님의 전지
11. 하나님의 지혜
12. 하나님의 전능
13. 하나님의 초월성
14. 하나님의 편재성
15. 하나님의 신실성
16. 하나님의 선하심
17. 하나님의 공의
18. 하나님의 긍휼
19. 하나님의 은혜
20. 하나님의 사랑
21. 하나님의 거룩성
22. 하나님의 주권
23. 열려진 비결

 

 

 

Aiden Wilson Tozer

 

Born in La Jose (now Newburg ), a tiny farming community in western Pennsylvania , his conversion was as a teenager in Akron, Ohio . While on his way home from work at a tire company, he overheard a street preacher say: "If you don't know how to be saved... just call on God." Upon returning home, he climbed into the attic , heeding the preacher’s advice.

 

In 1919 , five years after his conversion, and without formal theological training, Tozer accepted an offer to pastor his first church. This began forty four years of ministry, associated with the Christian and Missionary Alliance (C&MA), a Protestant evangelical denomination; thirty three of those years were served as a pastor in a number of churches. His first pastorate was in a small storefront church in Nutter Fort, West Virginia . Tozer also served as pastor for thirty years at Southside Alliance Church in Chicago ( 1928 to 1959 ), and the final years of his life were spent as pastor of Avenue Road Church in Toronto , Canada . In observing contemporary Christian living, he felt that the church was on a dangerous course towards compromising with "worldly" concerns.

 

In 1950 , Tozer was elected editor of the Alliance Weekly magazine, now called, Alliance Life, the official publication of the C&MA. From his first editorial, dated June 3, 1950, he wrote "It will cost something to walk slow in the parade of the ages, while excited men of time rush about confusing motion with progress. But it will pay in the long run and the true Christian is not much interested in anything short of that."

 

Among the more than forty books that he authored, at least two are regarded as Christian classics: The Pursuit of God and The Knowledge of the Holy. His books impress on the reader the possibility and necessity for a deeper relationship with God.

 

During a train trip from Chicago in the late 1940s, A.W. Tozer began to work on The Pursuit of God. He wrote all night long, the words coming to him as fast as he could put them down. By the next morning, when the train pulled into McAllen, Texas, the rough draft was done.Although written in such a remarkably short period of time, the depth, clarity and completeness of Tozer's message has made The Pursuit of God an enduring favorite -- about 1.7 million copies in print in 15 languages.

Living a simple and non-materialistic lifestyle, he and his wife, Ada Cecelia Pfautz, never owned a car, preferring bus and train travel. Even after becoming a well-known Christian author, Tozer signed away much of his royalties to those who were in need.

 

Tozer had seven children, six boys and one girl. He was buried in Ellet cemetery, Akron, Ohio USA , with a simple epitaph marking his grave: "A. W. Tozer - A Man of God".

 

Prayer was of vital personal importance for Tozer. "His preaching as well as his writings were but extensions of his prayer life", comments his biographer , James L. Snyder in the book, In Pursuit of God: The Life Of A.W. Tozer. "He had the ability to make his listeners face themselves in the light of what God was saying to them", writes Snyder.

 

 

생존시에 "20세기의 선지자" 라는 평을 받은 저자 에이든 토저(1897-1963)는

일생 동안 미국과 캐나다의 여러 교회를 섬기면서 Alliance Life지의

편집자로 활약했다. 그러나 그는 그의 저서를 통해 더 큰 영향을 끼쳤다

그는 40여 권의 저서를 남겼는데 그 중 다음과 같은 책들이 우리 말로 소개되었다.

『하나님을 추구함』The Pursuit of God

『경건 생활의 기초』The Root of the Righteous

『거듭난 자의 생활』Born After Midnight

『경건 생활의 비결』Key to the Deeper Life

『패배를 통한 승리』The Divine Conquest

『하나님을 바로 알자』The Knowledge of The Holy

『하나님은 이런 예배를 원하십니다』Whatever Happened To Worship

 

 

 

『경건 생활의 기초』The Root of the Righteous

『거듭난 자의 생활』Born After Midnight

『경건 생활의 비결』Key to the Deeper Life

『패배를 통한 승리』The Divine Conquest

『하나님을 바로 알자』The Knowledge of The Holy

『하나님은 이런 예배를 원하십니다』Whatever Happened To Worship

 

 

 

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