Take a look back down the mountain - 17 May 2010 |
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When you’re climbing a particularly stepp hill on an especially hot day, it’s a good idea occasionally to pause and take a look behind you, so you can see how far you’ve already come.
So also, when you’ve started to get your teeth into some of the chunkier slabs of patristic, Reformed and evangelical theology, and you find yourself working up a bit of a sweat, why not pause to take stock occasionally of what you’ve already read.
To that end, here’s a brief summary of what we’ve covered in the Guided Reading Course so far:
| Topic | Reading | |
| 1 | How to read and how to think | Bahnsen, ‘Debate’
Frame, Knowledge, ch 8, app E, F, G, pp. 242-301, 369-379 Field, ‘Read’ Jeffery, ‘Fallacies’ |
| 2 | How to speak | Nicole, Polemic
Thielicke Frame, Life, app D, pp. 938-942 Calvin, Institutes, III.vii-viii (1:689-712) |
| 3 | Prayer | Calvin, Institutes, III.xx (2:850–920)
Bounds, Prayer |
| 4 | Our knowledge of God (1) – Natural and special revelation | Berkhof, 1.I (pp. 19-28)
Calvin, Institutes, I.i-vi (1:35-74) Leithart, ‘Law’ Leithart, ‘Moses’ |
| 5 | Our knowledge of God (2) – Scripture | Calvin, Institutes, I.vii-x (1:74-99)
Wilson, ‘Sola’ Ryken, Imagery, extracts |
| 6 | God (1) – God’s being, attributes and names | Berkhof, 1a.III-IV (pp. 41-56)
Calvin, Institutes, I.xi-xii (1:99-120) Bavinck, Dogmatics 2, ch 3 (2:95-147) |
| 7 | God (2) – The incommunicable attributes | Berkhof, 1a.V-VI (pp. 52-63)
Bavinck, Dogmatics 2, ch 4 (2:148-177) Frame, Other, pp. 143–190 |
| 8 | God (3) – The Trinity, part i | Berkhof, 1a.VIII (pp. 82-99)
Calvin, Institutes, I.xiii (1:120-159) |
| 9 | God (4) – The Trinity, part ii | Bavinck, Dogmatics 2, ch 6 (2:256-334) |
| 10 | The problem of evil | Discussion of Blocher, Evil |
| 11 | Humanity (1) – The image of God | Calvin, Institutes, I.xv (1:183-196)
Bavinck, Dogmatics 2, ch 12 (2:530-562) |
| 12 | Humanity (2) – Original sin, part i | Romans 5
Calvin, Institutes, II.i Murray, The Imputation of Adam’s Sin, ch 1-2 |
| 13 | Humanity (3) – Original sin, part ii | Murray, The Imputation of Adam’s Sin, ch 3-4 |
| 14 | Humanity (4) – The corruption of sinful humanity | Calvin, Institutes, II.ii
Selected commentaries on Romans 2 (Cranfield, Schreiner, Murray, Moo) |
| 15 | Humanity (5) – The freedom and bondage of the will | Calvin, Institutes, II.iii-v |
| 16 | The providence of God | Berkhof, 1b.VI (pp. 165-178)
Calvin, Institutes, I.xvi-xviii (1:197-237) |
| 17 | The incarnation (1) | Athanasius, On the Incarnation |
| 18 | The incarnation (2) | Berkhof, 3a.III (pp. 321-330)
Calvin, Institutes, II.xii-xiv (1:464-493) |
| 19 | The incarnation (3) | Weinandy, Does God Change?, intro and ch 1 |
| 20 | The incarnation (4) | Weinandy, Does God Change?, chs 1-2 |
| 21 | Essay review and discussion | |
| 22 | Salvation (1) – Biblical theology, part i | Leithart, House, pp. 13-100 |
| 23 | Salvation (2) – Biblical theology, part ii | Leithart, House, pp. 100-188 |
| 24 | Salvation (3) – Biblical theology, part iii | Leithart, House, pp. 189-264 |
| 25 | Salvation (4) – Covenant Theology, part i | Robertson, Covenants, pp. 1-92 |
Athanasius. On the Incarnation (New York: St Vladimir’s Seminary Press)
Bahnsen, Greg and Gordon Stein. ‘The Great Debate: Does God exist?’ Audio online http://www.pinpointevangelism.com/atheists1.htm, http://www.cmfnow.com, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u6iEUanJbsw. Transcript online http://www.bellevuechristian.org/faculty/dribera/htdocs/PDFs/Apol_Bahnsen_Stein_Debate_Transcript.pdf
Bavinck, Herman. Reformed Dogmatics Volume 2: God and Creation (tr. John Bolt; Grand Rapids: Baker, 2004)
Berkhof, Louis. Systematic Theology (London: Banner of Truth, 1959)
Blocher, Henri. Evil and the Cross (tr. David G. Preston; Leicester: IVP, 1994)
Bounds, E. M. Power Through Prayer. Online http://leaderu.com/cyber/books/bounds/power.html
Calvin, John. Institutes of the Christian Religion, 2 vols (tr. F. L. Battles; Louisville: Westminster John Knox Press, 1960)
Field, David P. ‘How to Read.’ Online http://davidpfield.com/other/HowtoRead.pdf
Frame, John M. The Doctrine of the Knowledge of God (Phillipsburg: Presbyterian and Reformed, 1987)
Frame, John M. The Doctrine of the Christian Life (Phillipsburg: Presbyterian and Reformed, 2008)
Jeffery, Steve. ‘Logical Fallacies: How not to think.’ Online http://northlondonchurch.org/wp-content/uploads/2009/09/Logical-fallacies-how-not-to-think.pdf
Leithart, Peter J. A House For My Name: A survey of the Old Testament (Moscow: Canon Press: 2000)
Leithart, Peter J. ‘Did Plato Read Moses? Middle grace and moral consensus,’ BH Occasional Paper No. 23 (Niceville: Biblical Horizons, 1995)
Leithart, Peter J. ‘Natural Law: A Reformed critique,’ BH Occasional Paper No. 25 (Niceville: Biblical Horizons, 1996)
Murray, John. The Imputation of Adam’s Sin (Phillipsburg: Presbyterian and Reformed, 1977). Also reprinted in Justified in Christ: God’s plan for us in justification, ed. K. Scott Oliphint (Fearn: Christian Focus, 2007)
Nicole, Roger R. ‘Polemic Theology: How to Deal with Those Who Differ from Us.’ Online http://www.founders.org/journal/fj33/article3.html
Robertson, O. Palmer. The Christ of the Covenants (Phillipsburg: Presbyterian and Reformed, 1980)
Ryken, Leland, James C. Wilhoit and Tremper Longman III. Dictionary of Biblical Imagery (Downers Grove: InterVarsity, 1998)
Thielicke, Helmut. A Little Exercise for Young Theologians (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1962)
Weinandy, Does God Change? (Still River: St Bede’s, 1985)
Wilson, Douglas. ‘Sola Scriptura, Creeds, and Ecclesiastical Authority,’ pp. 255–286 in Keith A. Mathison (ed.), When Shall These Things Be? A Reformed response to hyper-preterism (Phillipsburg: Presbyterian and Reformed, 2004)
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