The overall argument of Eldredge's popular book Wild at Heart was misguided (Rick Philips' book was far more biblical), but the following resonanted and stuck with me as a man and a father:
Every man wants three things:
- a battle to fight;
- an adventure to live; and
- and a beauty to win.
I think there's truth to that.
There is a wealth of psychological insight to be gained on the nature of man from diving into the creation narrative with fresh eyes.
Couldn't agree more. Nature of man, nature of marriage, nature of tempatation and sin and its consequences. It's truly revelation.
Even the way we sin, and what we were made for before sin corrupted our ability to accomplish our purpose.
Vos has good biblical theology reflections here
Agree. I always go back to the origin of all sin: "did God truly say...?" The importance of the aural/verbal over the visual, etc. How that affects our fight against temptation (think Jesus' temptation in the wilderness, "It is written..."), how it affects what we emphasize in corporate worship...amen brother.
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You've got me beat! But that's a nice collection. 👌
In retrospect I should've waited for the single-volume of Vos' systematic to be cost-effective in completing it.
A few years ago I stopped stacking books and started stacking sats. My URCNA church has a nice church library too, and we members often lend each other good books when asked.
Sorry, I didn't mean to come off as "one-upping." These were mostly gifts. Very helpful to me in working out the deeper questions I had about covenant theology.
I'll see you and raise a...
Full disclosure, I haven't finished BT yet, I'm about halfway through it. But whenever I pick it up I have to go back and reread pp 138-143. Magnificent.
I'll make sure to check that out now. I've consulted the book here and there, likewise,, but was guided through its scope and major points by the Reformed Forum podcast (thank you OPC) discussion with Lane G. Tipton, et al.
Reformed Forum is great! We just used Lane's course on Foundations of Cov Theo in Adult SS. Good stuff.
