These notes were orignally written to accompany sermon series at Penrallt Baptist Church in Bangor, North Wales. Their purpose was to connect what I was saying in my sermons with what the Theology students in the congregation were hearing in their lectures at Bangor University. I have since realised that they have been downloaded by theology students from around the world so even though I am now retired I am continuing to add to them.

You are very welcome to these notes provided they are for your own personal use.  One of my aims is to encourage students from a conservative Evangelical background to engage with theological study while holding a high view of Scripture as the inspired, authoritative Word of God, trustworthy in all that it affirms. If you are adventurous enough to quote anything I say in one of your essays, you have my permission, but I encourage you to follow academic procedure in referencing it properly.

Peter James Cousins.