johnnythe3rd
Puritan Board Freshman
Over the past two years my interests have changed substantially. As a younger child, I loved reading fantasy novels and some historical fiction. For a few years I stopped reading altogether thanks in part to the distraction known as video games. The past two years however I have been reading and studying the scriptures more and reading extra-biblical christian literature, albeit at a snail's pace. I have found comfort in sitting on the quiet floor of my university's library and pouring over books on theology. In the past two years I've read through John Bunyan's "Grace Abounding in the Chief of Sinners", "The Confession", Book 1 of Calvin's Institutes, some modern RCC apologetic literature (almost became a papist but that is besides the point), and some other smaller works (such as a book on praying through the scriptures).
Currently, however, I am struggling through book 1 of "The City of God". My library has a 7 volume set of this work and I really do want to study it from a philosophical and theological perspective. I just find it so difficult to focus on it right now with so much else to do (I am a student after all). Should I push through or should I try to read something else. I'm getting a copy of "Covenant Theology: From Adam to Christ" by Nehemiah Coxe and John Owen in the coming days. Would it be a decent idea to stick with that or are the two balanced in their hard to grasp concepts?
(P.S. I love covenant theology and want to study it hence the Coxe book.)
Currently, however, I am struggling through book 1 of "The City of God". My library has a 7 volume set of this work and I really do want to study it from a philosophical and theological perspective. I just find it so difficult to focus on it right now with so much else to do (I am a student after all). Should I push through or should I try to read something else. I'm getting a copy of "Covenant Theology: From Adam to Christ" by Nehemiah Coxe and John Owen in the coming days. Would it be a decent idea to stick with that or are the two balanced in their hard to grasp concepts?
(P.S. I love covenant theology and want to study it hence the Coxe book.)