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Puritan Board Doctor
At a church library sale, I picked up a couple of interesting things:
1. A first edition (published in 1884) of George N. H. Peters's massive (3 volumes, 2,051 pages of text, 206 propositions) defense of non-dispensational premillennialism, The Theocratic Kingdom. As you know, Peters (1825-1909) was a Lutheran. I'm guessing that his magnum opus didn't win him many friends in the Lutheran world of his time, who were mainly amillennialists.
2. The Theology of St. Paul by Fernand (or Ferdinand) Prat. This is a 2-volume, 996-page description and defense of Paul's doctrine. Prat (1857-1938) was a French Jesuit, and the English translation (published in 1946) is of the 11th French edition (volume 1, 1926) and the 10th French edition (volume 2, 1927). The two volumes were originally published in 1908 and 1912, respectively. There are things we disagree with Roman Catholics about, of course, but this is, by all accounts, a classic set.
Both sets were cheap: only $15 for the Peters set, if memory serves. Hard to know which one to start with.
1. A first edition (published in 1884) of George N. H. Peters's massive (3 volumes, 2,051 pages of text, 206 propositions) defense of non-dispensational premillennialism, The Theocratic Kingdom. As you know, Peters (1825-1909) was a Lutheran. I'm guessing that his magnum opus didn't win him many friends in the Lutheran world of his time, who were mainly amillennialists.
2. The Theology of St. Paul by Fernand (or Ferdinand) Prat. This is a 2-volume, 996-page description and defense of Paul's doctrine. Prat (1857-1938) was a French Jesuit, and the English translation (published in 1946) is of the 11th French edition (volume 1, 1926) and the 10th French edition (volume 2, 1927). The two volumes were originally published in 1908 and 1912, respectively. There are things we disagree with Roman Catholics about, of course, but this is, by all accounts, a classic set.
Both sets were cheap: only $15 for the Peters set, if memory serves. Hard to know which one to start with.
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