Audio imageContending for the faith III

Samuel Rutherford

Samuel Rutherford (1600 - 1661)

Revd Prof. Robert McCollum

1hr 10min | 10/11/08

The great Scottish Covenanter and brilliant university teacher, Samuel Rutherford, was born into an age when the king answered to no-one - 'The king is law' (Rex Lex). But Rutherford believed the opposite. He wrote a book called 'Lex Rex', translated as 'The law is king'. The notion that the monarch was subject to a greater authority - God - was so radical that, had he not first died of illness, Rutherford's courageous stand would have seen him martyred for treason.

Other Contending for the faith lectures:

Thomas Chalmers, Thomas Cranmer, Charles Spurgeon, Oliver Cromwell, Josephine Butler, Selina, Countess of Huntingdon, Charles Oxley, William Tyndale, J.C. Ryle, Bishop Lesslie Newbigin, Francis Schaeffer, C.S. Lewis, Raymond Johnston, Christian Apologetics.

Related pages:

2008 audio archive, Audio archive (start), Thematic archive.

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