In Your Opinion - Which commentary set/volume should a Baptist seminarian invest in and use often wh
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Holman is good and produced by Baptist publishing house, Holman
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abondservant said:
As a Baptist, I am sure that is an accusation that can be leveled at certain churches within my own denomination. I pray regularly that the opposite is true of my church; that it would be hard for a non-believer to attend, and leave unchanged by God.
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So many of us here on this forum have degrees, and/or advanced degrees (or doctoral level), and its easy to assume that the person on the other side of the display has had the benefit of the same level of training; as faithlife grows, I think this is a trend that will change. At least I hope that this is a trend that will change. I would love to see hundreds of million church members (in addition to leaders) buying quality books RE the scripture, and our Lord.Bondservant, it’s truth that there might be a few Baptist churches up there that may not be living with Word as taught in the Bible, and even people within our congregations there will be always people who are not the type of sheep Matthew and June mentions. Of course, God allows this to happen, just as it happened with Judas Iscariot who was within the small circle of Jesus’ friends. Maybe those who don’t continue with the faith represent the seeds that ended up in the stones, and they grew up for a while, but the problems of this world and/or carnal passions take away to the wide door, from persevering in the Way. That’s why it’s important to read good comments (and I don’t mean exclusively Baptist books in particular either but commentaries with orthodox Biblical teaching in general and that includes different God-inspired authors), and yes I imagine too that many new Logos clients won’t have high theological degrees (at least I don’t) or will be new on faith.
Thanks for your recommendations list you listed before from Danny Akin, and I saw other contributors who have added a few more suggestions lately. I think all these recommendations (or most of them) are available in Logos. I am going to write some posts in my own blog about Jude for now, but when I need to write about something else, or teach about something else in my small Bible study group, I think I will review again all the recommendations listed in this thread forum and lists mentioned before by other. Although I am not a Baptist, again, I found out that in a way, at least from Bible interpretation I had more in common with Conservative Baptists beliefs than with the last two churches I used to attend. For now, I think, at least myself, I will focus on MacArthur books, along with the Holmes and with the New American Commentary in my Logos library, which unfortunately (this last commentary NAC) doesn’t have a commentary about 1 Corinthians. Maybe some forum members from Logos scared the editors about not writing about “controversial” topics lol – OK that last was just a silly joke but if I don’t write here within the next 10 years that probably means that big brother didn’t like my joke lol.
Blessing to you and your church.
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Carlos Manuel Chapa said:
which unfortunately (this last commentary NAC) doesn’t have a commentary about 1 Corinthians.
It is in Logos pre-publication now - https://www.logos.com/product/42390/the-new-american-commentary-1-corinthians - but I don't know when it will be available for purchase.
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Thank you for the information GC, I just pre-ordered
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Chris Funkhouser said:
As a once "Baptist Seminarian" and now Baptist pastor who has purchased several sets in both Logos and Hardback form, I would encourage you to not buy sets of commentaries at all. Instead go to www.bestcommentaries.com and start buying the best one or two commentaries for each book of the Bible. The reality is that no set of commentaries are perfect, all of them have strong and weak volumes. So instead of taking the good with the bad, just pick up the best ones as you can. Then add sets as you have more money. It will cost a little more, but it will serve you much better as a student and pastor.
I realize this is coming from a while back but I did want to agree with you but make on slight suggestion. Buying the best for each book is a very wise thing but it is good to have a complete base set you trust and can go to to start off... for me this is New Interpreter’s Bible (12 vols.) for a baptist I would assume The New American Commentary Series (NAC) would be the logical choice, although I would suspect a baptist would not be too far off the theological mark with Expositor's Bible Commentary, Revised Edition (13 vols.) Now the three I mention suffered as you said inevitable unevenness but it makes a good base to build on.
-Dan
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Danny Akin mentioned in his hermeneutics class a couple years back that he preferred EBC over NAC.
However, you are right Dan that both are in our wheelhouse. for the most part.L2 lvl4 (...) WORDsearch, all the way through L10,
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