Moving to the James P. Boyce Centennial Library
November of this year marks the 50th anniversary of the completion of the James P. Boyce Centennial Library. The groundbreaking for the library was held on May 24, 1957. Construction began in July 1958 and the cornerstone was set in May 1959.
The new library was completed and furnished by the beginning of November 1959, but the challenge of moving more than 100,000 volumes from Memorial Library in Norton Hall across campus to the new James P. Boyce Centennial Library in a timely manner still remained.
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The Holy Spirit’s illumination of the truth of God’s Word
An article by Bruce Ware, professor of Christian Theology at Southern Seminary and current president of the Evangelical Theological Society.
Scripture teaches that we can only correctly understand the truths of Scripture’s teaching when the Holy Spirit illumines God’s truth and enables us to see it for what it is: glorious and wondrous spiritual truth.
To see this, let’s start at the most basic level and acknowledge that people who do not truly know Christ are simply unable to understand rightly some of Scripture’s teaching. These are people whose minds and hearts are dominated by sin (Rom 8:6-8) and who do not have the Holy Spirit to illumine the Scriptures; as a result, they simply cannot understand correctly the spiritual truths Scripture teaches. Paul expresses this point in 1 Corinthians 2:14, “The natural person [i.e., the unsaved person devoid of the Spirit] does not accept the things of the Spirit of God, for they are folly to him, and he is not able to understand them because they are spiritually discerned.”
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