Comparative dogmatics

[chbrooking]

Does anyone know of a comparative analysis of the standard reformed ST works out there? -- A list, a table, or discursive? I'd like to see at-a-glance where they differ. But I don't mind reading a comparison/contrast either. Aside from just reading them all and compiling my own, is there a short-cut? Should I be embarrassed to ask for a short-cut on the PB?

 

[greenbaggins]

Clark, how dare you ask for a shortcut!!! How can you call yourself a Christian unless you've read the entirety of Calvin, Luther, Melanchthon, Musculus, Viret, Turretin, Mastricht, Bullinger, Vermigli, Aretius, Beza, Bucanus, Wollebius, Rijssen, Hyperius, Chemnitz, Olevianus, Ursinus, Zanchi, Piscator, Keckermann, Alsted, Trelcatius, Walaeus, Ames, Maresius, Voetius, Cocceius, Witsius, Heidanus, Heidegger, Pictet, Marckius, Boston, Brooks, Caryl, Adams, Flavel, Goodwin, Owen, Sibbes, Edwards, Augustine, Hodge, Shedd, Berkhof, Bavinck, Vos, Baxter, Reymond, Kelly, Dabney, Grudem, a'Brakel, Murray, Sproul, Velema/Van Genderen, Warfield, Charnock...(keels over from heat exhaustion).

 

[chbrooking]

Apologies to all for my indolence.

 

[greenbaggins]

All I can say is, it's a good thing hypocrisy is not the unforgivable sin! I have only read a small fraction of those 60 names.

 

[ClayPot]

Doesn't Enns' systematic theology do a little of that and compare positions? I could be wrong, but you may want to get it on loan or something to see.

 

[greenbaggins]

Doesn't Enns' systematic theology do a little of that and compare positions? I could be wrong, but you may want to get it on loan or something to see.

Pete Enns has not written a systematic theology, to my knowledge. Did you have someone else in mind?

 

[chbrooking]

Are you talking about the Moody handbook? -- Paul Enns?

 

[ClayPot]

Yes, Paul Enns, not Peter Enns. See [ame="http://www.amazon.com/Moody-Handbook-Theology-Paul-Enns/dp/0802434347/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1248461642&sr=8-1"]here[/ame] at amazon.

 

[tgoerz]

Clark, how dare you ask for a shortcut!!! How can you call yourself a Christian unless you've read the entirety of Calvin, Luther, Melanchthon, Musculus, Viret, Turretin, Mastricht, Bullinger, Vermigli, Aretius, Beza, Bucanus, Wollebius, Rijssen, Hyperius, Chemnitz, Olevianus, Ursinus, Zanchi, Piscator, Keckermann, Alsted, Trelcatius, Walaeus, Ames, Maresius, Voetius, Cocceius, Witsius, Heidanus, Heidegger, Pictet, Marckius, Boston, Brooks, Caryl, Adams, Flavel, Goodwin, Owen, Sibbes, Edwards, Augustine, Hodge, Shedd, Berkhof, Bavinck, Vos, Baxter, Reymond, Kelly, Dabney, Grudem, a'Brakel, Murray, Sproul, Velema/Van Genderen, Warfield, Charnock...(keels over from heat exhaustion).

And in that order. =)

 

[Whitefield]

Clark, how dare you ask for a shortcut!!! How can you call yourself a Christian unless you've read the entirety of Calvin, Luther, Melanchthon, Musculus, Viret, Turretin, Mastricht, Bullinger, Vermigli, Aretius, Beza, Bucanus, Wollebius, Rijssen, Hyperius, Chemnitz, Olevianus, Ursinus, Zanchi, Piscator, Keckermann, Alsted, Trelcatius, Walaeus, Ames, Maresius, Voetius, Cocceius, Witsius, Heidanus, Heidegger, Pictet, Marckius, Boston, Brooks, Caryl, Adams, Flavel, Goodwin, Owen, Sibbes, Edwards, Augustine, Hodge, Shedd, Berkhof, Bavinck, Vos, Baxter, Reymond, Kelly, Dabney, Grudem, a'Brakel, Murray, Sproul, Velema/Van Genderen, Warfield, Charnock...(keels over from heat exhaustion).

And in that order. =)

At least we know that Lane does not have OCD. If he did, he would have alphabetized that list.

 

[CharlieJ]

The Enns fail justify the means

I used Paul Enns' handbook at BJU. It is.... quite unsatisfying. It tries to cover biblical, systematic, dogmatic, and historical theology. The breadth of the material leads to extreme oversimplification, straw-mans, and outright errors.

I think the problem with a "comparative" systematic theology is that not everyone uses the same structures, or loci. Catholics, for example, are going to have an entirely different relationship between soteriology and ecclesiology. Into what categories would one break up John Frame's trilogy? How about Calvin's Institutes, which uses a loosely trinitarian framework to present a lot of material?

However one construes the categories to compare side-by-side, one will do some violence to theologians who did not structure their works that way.