Publications
PUBLICATIONS
God’s Story Podcast - Ian Reid and Brent Siddall
God‘s story is the story of the Bible from Genesis to Revelation. But it‘s also humanity‘s story, the story of a world fallen and blown apart and of a world reshaped and restored. It‘s the beginning of all beginnings and the end of all ends. Join Brent Siddall and the Rev Ian ‘Reido‘ Reid as they explore God, time, salvation and the cosmos. Explore the stories of Western culture as they pivot and interact with the main narrative of salvation history.
The Holy Spirit as Person and Power by Rob Yule
The Holy Spirit as Presence and Power offers fresh perspectives on the Holy Spirit. It takes what has been learned in the dynamic experience of charismatic renewal, shows how this opens fresh insights into what the Bible says about the Spirit, and challenges the major branches of the Christian church to re-examine their theological understanding of the Spirit in the light of these developments. Rob Yule shows that biblical language about the Spirit is surprisingly nuanced, with a particular concreteness and dynamism often overlooked by commentators. The Spirit oversees the development of the fine-tuned universe. The Spirit inspires artistic creativity and empowers Israel’s leaders. But only with the Messianic prophecies is it promised that the Spirit will indwell human beings. With Jesus comes a profound change in the Spirit’s relationship to humanity. Constituting Jesus as Israel’s Messiah, the Spirit makes him the Spirit-filled human being who in turn imparts the Spirit to his followers.
Rob contends that what the Spirit did in the life and ministry of Jesus is a prototype and pattern for what the Spirit will do in the life and ministry of Christians. Being baptised in the Holy Spirit is a tangible experience, distinct from though ideally accompanying conversion, which initiates a believer into a new realm of experience and effectiveness. Engaging with Catholic and Eastern Orthodox reflection on the Spirit, Rob notes the difference between the incarnation of the Son and the coming of the Spirit. In the former, a divine person assumes human nature; in the latter, the Spirit communicates the divine nature to human persons. The dynamism of the Spirit’s activity in the world today invites us to recognise the Spirit as a distinct divine person and reassess our understanding of God’s triune being.
The Holy Spirit as Presence and Power offers fresh perspectives on the Holy Spirit. It is a book of ecumenical significance, challenging theology and the global church to learn from the Pentecostal-Charismatic movement. It is a rich, learned and prophetic work of theological integration, a testimony to the Spirit’s inspiration.
Restoring the Fortunes of Zion by Rob Yule
Restoring the Fortunes of Zion surveys the restoration of Israel in modern history and in biblical prophecy. It is a collection of talks, articles, essays and lectures on the theme of the restoration of Israel that Rob Yule has given throughout his ministry. It includes much information that is little known in the polarisation of modern debate about the nation of Israel.
Restoring the Fortunes of Zion tells the dramatic story of the reemergence of Israel onto the stage of modern history – from the genocidal fury of the Holocaust to its extraordinary survival in face of regional hostility and global contempt. It shows how the return of the Jewish people from two millennia of exile realises with uncanny accuracy the visions of the biblical prophets, and explores what this signifies for the future.
‘Restoring the Fortunes of Zion evokes strong responses in me: deep gratitude for the author’s decades of courageous advocacy for my people; awe and wonder at the dramatic alignment between the words of the prophets and unfolding events in the “real” world; and bitter dismay at the malevolence towards Jews and Israel from sources as varied as the KGB, Christian supersessionists, the United Nations, and the media.
‘I commend Restoring the Fortunes of Zion to all those who wish for a clearer sense of Israel, its emergence from desolation to vitality and those who helped and hindered its progress. It is an exceptionally valuable resource.’ Dame Lesley Max
Restoring the Fortunes of Zion can be ordered from Amazon Books or The Book Depository, or directly from the author (robertmyule@gmail.com).
A Terrifying Grace by Rob Yule
Rob Yule has published a further book, arising from the second Emmaus course that he taught in 2014.
Entitled A Terrifying Grace: Sexuality, Romance and Marriage in Christian History, it looks at how twelve influential Christian leaders handled sex and marriage – from Augustine and Luther to Billy and Ruth Graham and Pope Saint John Paul II.
In a wide-ranging study of the theology of sexuality, Rob conveys orthodox Christian teaching about sexuality, love and marriage by means of vivid and engaging biographies of the leading teachers on the subject.
It is a book filled with drama and human-interest, describing the romantic relationships of well-known and influential Christian leaders – how they tackled and what they taught about this most fraught and fascinating aspect of human life. Rob shows the surprisingly varied ways in which his subjects negotiated the complicated circumstances and challenges of their intimate relationships.
It is also a book with ecumenical implications. It ends with a chapter on Pope John Paul II’s too-little-known ‘theology of the body’ – a striking corrective to the fateful legacy of Augustine’s teaching on Christian and particularly Catholic views of sex and marriage with which the book begins. It demonstrates that the closest parallels to John Paul II’s thinking – which he and his Catholic advocates are unaware of – are the Protestant theologians Jonathan Edwards and Karl Barth, discussed earlier in the book.
Rob’s approach breathes life into classic Biblical teachings on love, sex and marriage, and shows what we may be missing in the shallow experimentation of today’s sexualised popular culture.
Fences of Freedom by Rob Yule
Rob Yule has published a new book issuing from his 2014 Emmaus course. Entitled Fences of Freedom: The Ten Commandments for Today, it expounds the Ten Commandments in the context of the moral confusion of our society. The Ten Commandments are the fountainhead and moral undergirding of Western civilization. Yet they are widely disregarded in today’s secular society.
Many people are morally confused in our permissive culture. The Ten Commandments are exactly what we need; a brief and memorable summary of what is right and wrong.
The author shows the significance of the Ten Commandments for a wide range of important issues:
Their divine origin, which distinguishes them from human codes and legislation
Their role in the development of monotheism and the origins of modern science
Their importance in preserving human life from self-imposed slavery
Their value for parenthood and family relations, marriage and sexuality
Their validation of the value of life, personal property and truthfulness
Their relation to the moral law, the law of nature