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- 1948-1992 (Creation)
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David Broughton Knox, son of Canon D.J. Knox, had a long and distinguished connection with Moore Theological College. He was resident tutor from 1947-1953, Vice-Principal from 1954-1958 and Principal from 1959-85. Canon Knox, amongst other interests and duties, was a past President of the Council of Churches (NSW) and was Canon of St. Andrews Cathedral (as was his father in the 1940s) in the 1960s. In 1989 he established George Whitefield College in South Africa, and served as Principal until 1992. He married Ailsa Lane in 1950 and they had six children.
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The Authority of the Bible (Australian Church Record, 18/11/1948)
What the church is (The Briefing, issue 15)
Kept by the power of God (Churchman 85/2 1971)
Report to the Executive of the Synod of the Church of England in South Africa on theological education
The Kairos document
Doctrine – notes with handwritten annotations
Some aspects of the atonement
Limited atonement
Infant baptism
The history of the doctrine of the work of Christ
Notes on authority in the church
The Bible, God and his word
Translating ‘angel’ in the New Testament
David Paul Knox’s ordination to the presbyterate – short address
Propositional revelation – the only revelation
The implications of the doctrine of the trinity for ordinary life – given at Tyndale House Cambridge 1985
God’s Word
The doctrine of God – the person of Christ, the work of Christ, the unity of God
Note on the Lord’s Supper – July 1992
Christological thought to the conclusion of the sixth general council
A sermon in George Whitefield chapel July 1992 – Galatians 1:1
Interpreting the Bible
Family – Ephesians 3:17-4:3
Marriage – 1987
Divorce
Sermon notes 13th August 1989
Fear – notes only
Memoir of Donald Robinson at Moore College
Order – the problems that sin creates
Doctrine of God – Sydney University
Honor
Romans 8:20
Why go to church
Holy Scripture and the canon
Lectures on the Holy Spirit – notes
Incomprehensibility 1 John 5:6ff
The Holy Spirit is the bond of fellowship
The sovereignty of God
Faith
The church and the people of God
Women’s ministry
Manuscript notes on various subjects
De-mythologising the church – read at the Newcastle Theological Society 27th April
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