More things I don't need to share, but out of the overflow of my heart I don't give a damn
I think I know now how I shall climb the theological mountains, unlike a previous post where I grouped some of the best as being one gargantuan mountain I shall treat each work on a one at a time basis.
This is for the systematic theologies, and not the Puritans, for with the Puritans they must be a thousand voiced babbling brook rushing gladly and boisterously through my being daily.
I choose Herman Bavinck's Reformed Dogmatics to be the one I power through before reading another word of Calvin, Turretin, Mastricht, and Beeke.
Bavinck's work is a glorious culmination of centuries of rich Dutch theological thought, he fixes his gaze upon the whole panoply of strains in the storied history of Christian thought, many works he cites I wish I could get, but aren't translated yet, others I'm proud to have and look forward to tackling AFTER reaching the summit of this crowning jewel of the printed Reformed tradition.
3,024 pages, 4 volumes which cost me 200 dollars, it can be gotten in the original Baker Academy Hardcovers at RHB for less than that!! But if I were to get it physically oh i'd get that beautiful deluxe edition.
If I supplement this reading with anything else it would be his Reformed Ethics, which I have need of only 2 volumes to complete.
I love getting new stuff, but I should seriously consider not getting anything I wouldn't immediately need. Therefore I believe I 'll only be getting a Kindle Paperwhite so I can immerse myself in HB's RD for up to 20 hours per wake period with no aches and pains in my hands, arms and shoulders.
As I began it yet again the thought of copying and pasting it in innumerable sections in many many posts with my absolutely unique commentary could be a possibility, but it would be a stretch, we're a secular community here, and while religious content is ok, there ought to be a limit to how much one is sharing, and copyright laws would be on my back if I incrementally shared the whole work.
I want to finish HB by the end of this year, and when I say finish I mean only the initial complete read through.
Volume 1 -- to be completed on Halloween
Volume 2 and half of V. 3 -- by the end of November
and the rest of V. 3 and V. 4 in December
And after saying this The Yawn Archive made the Angel of Utrecht happy.
This is for the systematic theologies, and not the Puritans, for with the Puritans they must be a thousand voiced babbling brook rushing gladly and boisterously through my being daily.
I choose Herman Bavinck's Reformed Dogmatics to be the one I power through before reading another word of Calvin, Turretin, Mastricht, and Beeke.
Bavinck's work is a glorious culmination of centuries of rich Dutch theological thought, he fixes his gaze upon the whole panoply of strains in the storied history of Christian thought, many works he cites I wish I could get, but aren't translated yet, others I'm proud to have and look forward to tackling AFTER reaching the summit of this crowning jewel of the printed Reformed tradition.
3,024 pages, 4 volumes which cost me 200 dollars, it can be gotten in the original Baker Academy Hardcovers at RHB for less than that!! But if I were to get it physically oh i'd get that beautiful deluxe edition.
If I supplement this reading with anything else it would be his Reformed Ethics, which I have need of only 2 volumes to complete.
I love getting new stuff, but I should seriously consider not getting anything I wouldn't immediately need. Therefore I believe I 'll only be getting a Kindle Paperwhite so I can immerse myself in HB's RD for up to 20 hours per wake period with no aches and pains in my hands, arms and shoulders.
As I began it yet again the thought of copying and pasting it in innumerable sections in many many posts with my absolutely unique commentary could be a possibility, but it would be a stretch, we're a secular community here, and while religious content is ok, there ought to be a limit to how much one is sharing, and copyright laws would be on my back if I incrementally shared the whole work.
I want to finish HB by the end of this year, and when I say finish I mean only the initial complete read through.
Volume 1 -- to be completed on Halloween
Volume 2 and half of V. 3 -- by the end of November
and the rest of V. 3 and V. 4 in December
And after saying this The Yawn Archive made the Angel of Utrecht happy.
46-50, M
