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I don't have time to study the rest at present (though I have read 2 of C Hodges' volumes). I am currently reading Berkhof for the second time.
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I don't have time to study the rest at present (though I have read 2 of C Hodges' volumes). I am currently reading Berkhof for the second time.
JonathanHunt
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It is Reymond for me. Of course I don't agree with everything he says, but I have been privileged to meet him personally and he is the same on the page as in the flesh - eminently 'readable' and clear.
Almost enjoyable, in fact...
Almost enjoyable, in fact...
ReformationArt
Puritan Board Freshman
There might be a reason for that; Dr. Reymond taught at Knox.
Yes, I gathered that
Do we have a lot of Knox grads here? I thought it was a smaller institution compared to the Westminsters and Covenant?
Also, I really am interested with regards to why it supersedes Berkhof and Calvin in its contribution to ST???
VaughanRSmith
Puritan Board Sophomore
I'm about to start (6 days) my BTh course, where in my second year I will be studying Reymond intensively, supported with Grudem and Erickson. I haven't heard anything about Erickson apart from the note in the back of Reymond (of all places!) that says "his Christology is kenotic in some regards".
Does that mean he believes Jesus gave up aspects of his divinity to become man?
I've also got my McNeill Institutes at the ready. Bring it on!
Does that mean he believes Jesus gave up aspects of his divinity to become man?
I've also got my McNeill Institutes at the ready. Bring it on!
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Where did you meet him; was he in the UK?
VaughanRSmith
Puritan Board Sophomore
Just spent half an hour at McDonalds with Hot Cakes, Coffee and Reymond. Very enjoyable.
Reformed Covenanter
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With the book or with him personally. I wouldn't take a book like that into McDonald's - someone might put their greasy hands on it.
VaughanRSmith
Puritan Board Sophomore
I doubt it is Reymond's thing, coming downunder just to spend half an hour in a fast food restaurant with an unemployed, unshowered man, but you never know!
With the book or with him personally. I wouldn't take a book like that into McDonald's - someone might put their greasy hands on it.
I'm quite pedantic about taking care of my books, but I'm enjoying this one too much, and it is built like a tank anyway
ReformationArt
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ReformationArt
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"Supersized" Systematic Theology......
Do you want fries with your infralapsarianism????
Do you want fries with your infralapsarianism????
Reformed Covenanter
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Perhaps Reymond's was not required when you were in seminary because it has not been out but about ten years. Since it has been out it has gone into its third printing and is known all over the globe. It is becoming the accepted systematic in many seminaries. Reymond's systematic is the standard text that is now used at the Baptist Seminary of the Metropolitan Tabernacle in London. I would love to be a fly on the wall when they come to the section on baptism of church government.
VaughanRSmith
Puritan Board Sophomore
He sides with Clark on "seeming paradoxes" and some other stuff. I don't know much about the debate, but what he said seemed pretty much fine(?!?)I thought that Reymond adhered to some form of Clarkian philosophy and that the latter was not popular in most Reformed circles.
Maybe I'm a closet Clarkian, who knows.
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I thought that Reymond adhered to some form of Clarkian philosophy and that the latter was not popular in most Reformed circles.
From what I remember, he is a presuppositionalist.
VaughanRSmith
Puritan Board Sophomore
I thought that Reymond adhered to some form of Clarkian philosophy and that the latter was not popular in most Reformed circles.
Yes, he would hold to Clark and no it is held by many in Reformed circles. I lean toward Clark myself.
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Yeah, that's right call them chips; I hate it when you go into McDonald's over here only to be asked (in a Belfast accent) "would you like fries with your burger?"
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ReformationArt
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In texas, "chips" has a completely different connotation, as does "patti". Maybe it's the preponderance of cows here in the TX panhandle?
Yeah, that's right call them chips; I hate it when you go into McDonald's over only to be asked (in a Belfast accent) "would you like fries with your burger?"
That is what they are Chips, not fries. Who came up with the term fries? It certainly was not an Irishman
My grandparents had a farm in Arkansas and they called those things y'all in Texas call chips, cow pies. I never ate one though
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No, I want fries (or chips) with my supralapsarianism.
Yeah, that's right call them chips; I hate it when you go into McDonald's over only to be asked (in a Belfast accent) "would you like fries with your burger?"
That is what they are Chips, not fries. Who came up with the term fries? It certainly was not an Irishman
Too right.
DMcFadden
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While Erickson claims to be only moderately Calvinistic (I'll let you parse the number of points; most people say he was kindof a 4 pointer), he has been a stalwart opponent of "progressive" evangelicalism, postmodernism, and open theism. Before Grudem, he was one of the better choices for a one volume ST. Grudem seems to have eclipsed him in that market.
Bygracealone
Puritan Board Sophomore
I've read quite a bit from Reymond's systematic; overall it's good and the thing that makes it good (in my opinion) is the fact that it's really not a "New Systematic"--many of the quotes are from the WCF and other older Reformed theologians... So, the title of the book is a bit awkward.
I certainly don't care for his view on Romans 7. In the appendix of the work, he argues that Paul is writing about the experience of an unregenerate...
Robert Letham wrote a pretty critical review of Reymond's work (first edition) in WTJ, I don't know what year it was (probably 2001-2002); I photocopied the review and put it in the book, but forgot to write in the year...
FYI, Reymond does not hold to the doctrine of the eternal generation of the Son (pgs. 325ff.).
I certainly don't care for his view on Romans 7. In the appendix of the work, he argues that Paul is writing about the experience of an unregenerate...
Robert Letham wrote a pretty critical review of Reymond's work (first edition) in WTJ, I don't know what year it was (probably 2001-2002); I photocopied the review and put it in the book, but forgot to write in the year...
FYI, Reymond does not hold to the doctrine of the eternal generation of the Son (pgs. 325ff.).
N. Eshelman
Puritan Board Senior
Berkhof sucks the life right out of Christianity. He makes the Reformed Faith "them dry bones!"
I love Bavinck and Brakel because they are experiential, sound, and O so practical !
I love Bavinck and Brakel because they are experiential, sound, and O so practical !
Yes, kenotic Christianity holds to the view that Jesus gave up some of His divine attributes when He became a man.
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