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Systematic Theology

Started by Lions84, August 25, 2014, 02:41:26 pm

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Lions84

This summer I read Dagg and Strong , it was enlightening and at times made my brain sore.

http://www.thescripturealone.com/Strong'sTheology.pdf

http://www.reformedreader.org/rbb/dagg/mottoc.htm

Any one else dig into our faith to this level.

Rayburn

December 09, 2014, 12:43:27 am #1 Last Edit: December 09, 2014, 12:52:15 am by Rayburn
I guess "level" is a relative term. I've dug pretty deep, but never read either of the two works presented.
I know Dagg was an ardent Calvinist, so I think he starts with a wrong premise. 
I have read a lot of St. Augustine, who has been called (not without some merit) a Calvinist before Calvin, though I don't agree entirely. I've also read a lot of Aquinas and Pascal, though less of them than Augustine. Aquinas is, frankly, way too smart for me, so I've depended a lot on other people's books about his books, particularly Summa Theologica.
I haven't read very many of the reformationists, but of the ones I have, I found Jonathan Edwards to be among the most enlightening. Deitrich Bonhoeffer is one of my heroes and he was greatly influenced by Carl Barth, who had an earth shattering approach to scripture in my view. Soren Keirkegaard's books are very difficult for me to understand as well, but many of the homilies he preached are available and they are delightful.
But I've read more G.K. Chesterton than anyone else, and I think the man was a colossal genius. If I could pick two books besides the Holy Scriptures that everyone had to read, they would "Orthodoxy" and "The Everlasting Man".

Lions84

My favorite is Christian Doctrine by WC Conner who was a Professor at SWBTS back in the Pre WW2 era.

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