My Reformed physical collection before the surge of new ones
I haven't mentioned here what I do have in physical copies that serve my current focus, which feels like it will be my focus till the end of my earthly existence.
From Hendrickson I have those 2 big volumes of Jonathan Edwards, but for his stuff, that is just the tip of the iceberg, over at Yale publishing they have the COMPLETE Edwards that you can read online, with authoritative Introductions and footnotes, but I can't read them that way, for you'll be reading and then a new paragraph will be something else, it's frustrating!! Well these 2 volumes for a LONG time was what I had under my DVD player when I did most of my film watching on a TV that didn't show the whole image.
The Tracts and Letters of John Calvin, I like the Letters most, as they are short and give you an insider's view of the great reformer. Volume 1 has the bio written by Theodore Beza!! I had gotten this from a store in the city and it was winter time, and the material of them stacked on top of each other makes them slippery and I had to carry them with no box or bag, so I was petrified about any of them dropping in the snow!! One of them I used as a hammer to collapse a ladder that was needed when we had help with the shed a couple months ago, btw. Sturdy volumes Banner of Truth produces!!
Matthew Poole's commentary as well as Matthew Henry's, but one volume of Henry has been missing for like forever!!
A whole slew of study Bibles, and many of them were mom's and it's special for me to see what she wrote in them, she marked her Bibles up real good!! But I can't dwell on that too much as my dad is wont to, which fosters a melancholic disposition.
AND a Harmonized Reformed Confessions thing which helps you compare them all. We had a friend who was even more zealous for Reformed theology than I ever was and I had lent this to him, and I still remember how he returned it to me, such a serious fellow, but the Covid-19 thing caused our friendship with him and others to be ruined, because he felt strongly that social distancing can't cause churches to stop functioning.
But I digress, dad's still not found his keys, he found his phone though. He's really depressed and in the mire of self loathing, and is going through the tortuous thing of putting all the blankets and pillows on the couch so he can lie down.
From Hendrickson I have those 2 big volumes of Jonathan Edwards, but for his stuff, that is just the tip of the iceberg, over at Yale publishing they have the COMPLETE Edwards that you can read online, with authoritative Introductions and footnotes, but I can't read them that way, for you'll be reading and then a new paragraph will be something else, it's frustrating!! Well these 2 volumes for a LONG time was what I had under my DVD player when I did most of my film watching on a TV that didn't show the whole image.
The Tracts and Letters of John Calvin, I like the Letters most, as they are short and give you an insider's view of the great reformer. Volume 1 has the bio written by Theodore Beza!! I had gotten this from a store in the city and it was winter time, and the material of them stacked on top of each other makes them slippery and I had to carry them with no box or bag, so I was petrified about any of them dropping in the snow!! One of them I used as a hammer to collapse a ladder that was needed when we had help with the shed a couple months ago, btw. Sturdy volumes Banner of Truth produces!!
Matthew Poole's commentary as well as Matthew Henry's, but one volume of Henry has been missing for like forever!!
A whole slew of study Bibles, and many of them were mom's and it's special for me to see what she wrote in them, she marked her Bibles up real good!! But I can't dwell on that too much as my dad is wont to, which fosters a melancholic disposition.
AND a Harmonized Reformed Confessions thing which helps you compare them all. We had a friend who was even more zealous for Reformed theology than I ever was and I had lent this to him, and I still remember how he returned it to me, such a serious fellow, but the Covid-19 thing caused our friendship with him and others to be ruined, because he felt strongly that social distancing can't cause churches to stop functioning.
But I digress, dad's still not found his keys, he found his phone though. He's really depressed and in the mire of self loathing, and is going through the tortuous thing of putting all the blankets and pillows on the couch so he can lie down.
46-50, M