Puritanhead
Puritan Board Professor
John MacArthur if people were honest has written some good, sound books such as Ashamed of the Gospel, Twelve Ordinary Men, among others.
I figure some of the learned theologues on the board, might have a set of MacArthur's New Testament commentaries which all in total retail for about $450, and numbers 24 volumes.
My two-pronged inquiry is simple.
Is it worth the investment for a Reformed theologian (who will only invest in a finite number of Bible commentaries, at most probably three to four multi-volume sets?)
Or is the commentary sufficiently marred by dispensationalist presuppositions that the reader would be constantly challenged to filter out, which impedes the value of MacArthur as an authority?
Myself, I certainly don't see his interpretation on Revelation and the book of Daniel worth entertaining now. Granted, there are fundamentals of eschatology that unite even dispensationalists and the Reformed, whether we want to admit it or not.
I figure some of the learned theologues on the board, might have a set of MacArthur's New Testament commentaries which all in total retail for about $450, and numbers 24 volumes.
My two-pronged inquiry is simple.
Is it worth the investment for a Reformed theologian (who will only invest in a finite number of Bible commentaries, at most probably three to four multi-volume sets?)
Or is the commentary sufficiently marred by dispensationalist presuppositions that the reader would be constantly challenged to filter out, which impedes the value of MacArthur as an authority?
Myself, I certainly don't see his interpretation on Revelation and the book of Daniel worth entertaining now. Granted, there are fundamentals of eschatology that unite even dispensationalists and the Reformed, whether we want to admit it or not.