Bookish trend as of late
My last Streamy post mentioned i got some de Sade, and soon after that, through a willow the wisp happenstance what i suddenly fell heavily for was a thing i've always had on the back burner, at this time it crept in by way of perverse misuse.
Let me back up a bit, with Sade i got some Kraft-Ebbing and Havelock Ellis, then a micro shift with some far right radical stuff with some guy named Pockey whose big book is called Imperium.
In this mindset of having to have all the bases covered on my kindle, i met and embraced my old friend John Calvin and those who taught and thought like him, in the Reformed tradition, the Puritans big time, there was all these cheap complete editions, and still my heart hungered for more. There's a site called Monergism that has over 900 eBooks for free i figured out how to send them to the kindle and they look fantastic, and then i joined Scribd for some Reformed sheeet, like Dutch theologian par excellence Herman Bavinck.
Now my Reformed library is pretty impressive, and if my feelings remain like they have i'm gonna spend thousands more when the debt is all paid up in March of next year.
There's this 7 volume set that's in the process of being translated and published of Petrus van Mastricht, who's best known for a glowing review by Jonathan Edwards.
Yeah i won't get into the nitty gritty, but i do have to ponder why really am i getting so deeply into something that's explicitly only designed for believers, which i distance myself from identifying with.
I used to be into it all, and there's shades and glimpses of reasons i can snatch at, for one thing i see the matter of belief to be perpetually unresolved, and to hear voices from the side of religion, a portion of it that i admire, the specific theological area that i designate as worthy of extreme scrutiny is thus worthwhile.
There's a software that pastors use i found out about called Logos, the most expensive bundle they offer is close to 40,000 bucks lol, imagine spending the same amount you would for a car in order to study the bible better, haha
Let me back up a bit, with Sade i got some Kraft-Ebbing and Havelock Ellis, then a micro shift with some far right radical stuff with some guy named Pockey whose big book is called Imperium.
In this mindset of having to have all the bases covered on my kindle, i met and embraced my old friend John Calvin and those who taught and thought like him, in the Reformed tradition, the Puritans big time, there was all these cheap complete editions, and still my heart hungered for more. There's a site called Monergism that has over 900 eBooks for free i figured out how to send them to the kindle and they look fantastic, and then i joined Scribd for some Reformed sheeet, like Dutch theologian par excellence Herman Bavinck.
Now my Reformed library is pretty impressive, and if my feelings remain like they have i'm gonna spend thousands more when the debt is all paid up in March of next year.
There's this 7 volume set that's in the process of being translated and published of Petrus van Mastricht, who's best known for a glowing review by Jonathan Edwards.
Yeah i won't get into the nitty gritty, but i do have to ponder why really am i getting so deeply into something that's explicitly only designed for believers, which i distance myself from identifying with.
I used to be into it all, and there's shades and glimpses of reasons i can snatch at, for one thing i see the matter of belief to be perpetually unresolved, and to hear voices from the side of religion, a portion of it that i admire, the specific theological area that i designate as worthy of extreme scrutiny is thus worthwhile.
There's a software that pastors use i found out about called Logos, the most expensive bundle they offer is close to 40,000 bucks lol, imagine spending the same amount you would for a car in order to study the bible better, haha
