What I'm Reading -- How About You?

[HereIStand]

Just finished today, God and Philosophy by Etienne Gilson. It’s is a brief overview of the history of philosophy related to the God. Among the highlights in book:

1) God in Greek philosophy – where what could be called God is non-personal philosophical concept, such as Plato's the Good.

2) God in Judaism and Christianity and Christian philosophy -– God is a personal, self-sustaining being or He who is.

3) God in modern philosophy – God as a first cause or as a general unifying principle, but little more.

The last part is a brief argument for design in nature based on an intelligent purpose – a personal God. Probably the best part of the book is the following:

...each and every particular existing thing, depends for its existence upon a pure act of existence. In order to be the ultimate answer to all existential problems, this supreme cause has to be absolute existence. Being absolute, such a cause is self-sufficient; if it creates, its creative act must be free. Since it creates not only being but order, it must be something which at least eminently contains the only principle of order known to us in experience, namely, thought. Now an absolute, self-subsisting, and knowing cause is not an It but a He. In short, the first cause is the One in whom the cause of both nature and history coincide, a philosophical God who can also be the God of a religion.

 

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Boettner's The Atonement

 

[desmalia]

Boettner's The Atonement

Just downloaded that one free from Monergism.com.
The Atonement

 

[the particular baptist]

Finished The Incredible Scofield And His Book. Highly recommended for anyone interested in finding out the who's and how's of dispensational beginnings after 1850 years of Christianity. In PDF here.

 

[AndOne]

"Historical Theology" by Gregg Allison. It is meant to be a companion to Grudem's "Systematic Theology." So far so good...

 

[cygnusx1]

Just downloaded that one free from Monergism.com.
The Atonement

thanks for the reminder desmalia , they did email me but I forgot , I also just discovered I had a copy of Bottners book on predestination on one of my shelves , I forgot I even had it !!

 

[cygnusx1]

Boettner's The Atonement

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[cygnusx1]

just read this small book again , very rewarding ;

Calvinism, Hypercalvinism and Arminianism [Paperback]

Kenneth G. Talbot (Author), W.Gary Crampton (Author)

 

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Tonight I started reading Don Carson's Love in Hard Places.

The Gospel Coalition is offering a free PDF of the entire book.

 

[John Jay]

Greg Allison - "Historical Theology"

 

[Cajun Huguenot]

Just received John Williamson Nevin: High Church Calvinist by D.G. Hart in the mail today.

I've wanted to read this book for some time and I'm pretty excited about having it in hand.

I read Nevin's The mystical presence; or, A vindication of the reformed or Calvinistic Doctrine of the Holy Eucharist some years back. It is a great book that more Reformed Christians should read.

Now it is time for my walk then I will start reading!!!!!!

Kenith

 

[Hammster]

Just received John Williamson Nevin: High Church Calvinist by D.G. Hart in the mail today.

I've wanted to read this book for some time and I'm pretty excited about having it in hand.

I read Nevin's The mystical presence; or, A vindication of the reformed or Calvinistic Doctrine of the Holy Eucharist some years back. It is a great book that more Reformed Christians should read.

Now it is time for my walk then I will start reading!!!!!!

Kenith

A friend on Facebook just got the same book. Weird.

 

[Cajun Huguenot]

A friend on Facebook just got the same book. Weird.

That's some coincidence.

 

[JM]

Bullinger's Decades.

 

[oworm]

http://www.ivpress.com/cgi-ivpress/book.pl/code=2570

This is a very good work. It was required reading for my Christology class. Each view is put forward with responses by the other three contributors. It will expand your armory as you engage with modern and not so modern perceptions of the Atonement

 

[Anoetos]

Medical-Surgical Nursing: Patient-Centered, Collaborative Care by Ignatavicius and Workman

 

[Cajun Huguenot]

Just started 'The Anxious Bench' by John W. Nevin.

The Cost of Discipleship by Dietrich Bonhoeffer is waiting in the wings.

Kenith

 

[McWilliams]

The Existence and Attributes of God, Stephen Charnock Great book!! Such a wonderful high and holy view of our God!!

 

[teejayinau]

I am currently reading God of Promise: Introducing Covenant Theology by Michael Horton. Also I have just finished Creation, Fall, Restoration by Andrew S. Kulikovsky.

 

[Walter Kovacs]

Pascals Wager - James Connon
The Prophets- Abraham Heschel
The Essential Tao - The Tao Te Ching and Inner Teachings of Chuang Tzu
The Imitation of Christ - Kempis
Institutes - Calvin
Summa- Aquinas
Men of COnviction - Washburn someone
Happy Together - Bill Cloke
The Essential Wisdom of the Founding Fathers - TFF
The Dialogues of Plato, 1892 edition/translation by Jowett.
Sayings of the Desert Fathers - Athanasius
The Works of Aristotle
Thus Spake Zarathustra - Nietzche
The Works of Immanuel Kant
Fear and Trembling - Keirkregaard
The Tenure of Kings and Magsistrates - John Milton
Anthology of Chinese Literature
Treatise of Civil Power in Ecclesiastical Rule - Milton