Pensees: Theologies

Hey Bob, I bet you won’t believe this, but Ernest Pickering was my pastor during my high school years. I’m sure it’s obvious that I don’t agree with him on a lot of things, but he was a good guy.

Keep reading that theology.

Keith

Only in grad school.

I can’t say that I have ever read one from front to back. I have read entire sections, but I always considered them reference materials. Perhaps it isn’t a bad idea.

Keith,

Pickering was your pastor? Where were you at that time. He pastored a church that I attended when I lived in Toledo (although I arrived a few years after he had gone).

Pat

I read some, dare I say, Ryrie, in college and have in the last couple of years read some John MacArthur and am now reading a book by Pastor Steve Lawson, do those count?

Heidi,

I’m proud that a woman in our church has such good reading habits! However, I must be brutal and not count Lawson and MacArthur this time unless they have written a Systematic Theology that I am not familiar with.

We’ll count Ryrie.

The others didn’t name anybody…

I didn’t want to be a name dropper. :-)

However, if you are looking for a name, I use Charles Hodge (you can get a great deal on his work at CBD) and have used Reymond (primarily because his works are included in my Libronix library).

Would something by Osteen or Warren count? :-)

Pat

Call me Monk, but it drives me crazy that CBD has put the three volume Hodges set backwards. I personally think it is their subtle man-centered antipathy for Hodge’s God-centered theology that is eeking out. It’s really sad.

I’ve never noticed that. I was pleased to get the 75% discount. Apparently Amazon got them in the correct order.However, it does appear that they’ve done the same thing with McGee and MacArthur. Do I smell a conspiracy here? Maybe it’s just because when they are positioned that way you can see the front cover of the first volume. ;-)

Turretin - one of my absolute favorites. I love his approach.

Chafer - thorough would be a bit of an understatement. It took a while to read, but the effort was rewarding.

Hodge - what else can be said? He is one of the best and clearest that I have read.

Strong - the first I ever read through, and it almost cured me of the desire to read any other. Verbosity would be an understatement.

I have read Bancroft, Geisler and some of Hodge.

Yes, I am in grad school and will undoubtedly read much more before I graduate…

Never read the “kiver” one; am reading Watson’s “A Body of Divinity” right now - the one you gave me. Actually, I am using it for the Wed. night kid’s program. It is a great book, thanks so much.

Uck - Strong. I dreaded reading him when I was in Systematic Theology.

I haven’t fully read [kiver to kiver, that is] any, but I’m tackling Grudem and would like to try Reymond, although his arguments for Calvinism made me frustrated when I read him before. I also have to convince my wife to pick it up for my birthday later this month. ;)

Does the “Fundamentals for the 21st Century” count? I think it should :).

Reymond is interesting… I have read three of his works including the “New Systematic Theology” (kiver to kiver). I find his writing very compelling, but then again he sometimes stumps me with his emotional, visceral - but weak - arguments on “peripheral” matters that mean alot to him. His work on Paul, the Apostle, is fantastic until you get to the section on baptism and then it seems like all of his dignified and reasoned argumentation falls apart and he begins ranting against baptists.

You noticed that too? Glad to hear I’m not the only one who did.

That being said, it seemed like there was a lot of good stuff in there. I’ll just disregard his stuff on Baptists and the “Arminians are all really Pelagians and want to strip God of His Divinity” argument that he made for about a full chapter earlier in the book.

Not daily, but I keep coming back to Berkhof. I bought Reymond’s for my birthday (and someone’s recommendation, and thanks to a generous discount from our friendly neighborhood bookstore) and am currently finishing up the new one by Frame.

I find it drives me to worship our amazing, omnipotent God.

Not daily, but I keep coming back to Berkhof. I bought Reymond’s for my birthday (and someone’s recommendation, and thanks to a generous discount from our friendly neighborhood bookstore) and am currently finishing up the new one by Frame.

I find it drives me to worship our amazing, omnipotent God.

I just completed Thiessen’s Systematic Theology.

Bill Pershing