Any Reformed library collections?
Has anyone put together a collection string for all of their reformed books. I was doing research on the reformed perspective of total depravity, and realized how helpful it would be if I had a collection put together with the proper resources. I was hoping to cheat off of someone else's list 
If you have an arminian collection string also, please let me know.
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Blair Laird said:
Has anyone put together a collection string for all of their reformed books. I was doing research on the reformed perspective of total depravity, and realized how helpful it would be if I had a collection put together with the proper resources. I was hoping to cheat off of someone else's list
If you have an arminian collection string also, please let me know.I have a collection called Reformed Theology that I put together by tagging certain resources I have that I recognized as Reformed, and then building a collection based on my tagging. I'm including an RTF print out of that collection. I would not consider it complete.
I have no idea how many of them would include a discussion on the doctrine of total depravity (AKA total inability). However, if you have the resource Historic Creeds and Confessions (by Rick Brannan), you can read the original forumulation of this doctrine in the synod of Dordt vis a vis the Arminian challenges. The Third and Fourth heads of doctrine sum up this doctrine.
Here's the collection I have: 8171.Reformed Theology Collection.rtf
Help links: WIKI; Logos 6 FAQ. (Phil. 2:14, NIV)
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I do have a couple Collections categorized by thype of theology, but they are manually built.
I've tagged all of my systematics by type (Reformed, Arminian, Baptist, Dispensational, Pentecostal, etc), and built collections off of that.
Here's the bibliography of that collection: 1121.refsys.rtf
I've also created a collection of Reformed thought, based on authors, but it's a collection of collections (each of single author), and I don't really use a string for it either (except to include the Westminster Theological Journal):
And here's the bibliography of this collection: 3108.refthought.rtf
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Thanks, I wish these resources were already tagged by theological perspective. I started with
I found Shedd a real help also, I really love his dogmatic theology. I am on my way to working over to the Reformed dogmatics, but I took a break to see if I can make my future searches better.
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Blair Laird said:
Thanks, I wish these resources were already tagged by theological perspective.
If they were, we'd be here arguing about why they're tagged wrong. [;)]
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Thanks Todd, it looks like I have some tagging homework to do. I am not sure what the reformed authors names are, but Richards list should give me a good jump start.
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Todd Phillips said:Blair Laird said:
Thanks, I wish these resources were already tagged by theological perspective.
If they were, we'd be here arguing about why they're tagged wrong.
That would be very true [:D]
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Blair Laird said:
Thanks Todd, it looks like I have some tagging homework to do. I am not sure what the reformed authors names are, but Richards list should give me a good jump start.
FYI, I attached my lists to the post after the fact.
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Todd Phillips said:
FYI, I attached my lists to the post after the fact.
Thanks, I did not catch that..
Blessings in Christ.
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Do you guys consider Wolfhart Pannenberg to fall into the reformed category? I did not see lutheran sources in your lists, any reason?
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I am also very confused with J. Dwight Pentecost he was trained dispensational (dallas theological) which kinda makes him a moderate calvinist, yet he was an ordained presbyterian pastor
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Blair Laird said:
Do you guys consider Wolfhart Pannenberg to fall into the reformed category?
No. He does his own thing.
Blair Laird said:I did not see lutheran sources in your lists, any reason?
Lutheran Theology is a separate and distinct tradition from Reformed Theology. If I had any Lutheran works they would be in their own category (note to self, get a Lutheran systematic.) Since you ask the question, perhaps you should read a definition of Reformed Theology. Here's a link to the New Dictionary of Theology:
logosres:ndictheo;hw=Reformed_Theology
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That was an interesting article, I have not read the whole thing but I read the point of difference between lutheran, and reformed. I also noted when the confessions were listed the Geneva confession by Calvin was not listed, any particular reason, or did it just get left out by accident?
Thanks for the speedy response..
Here is the collection that I put together using both of your lists, and then adding some more.
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Blair Laird said:
I am also very confused with J. Dwight Pentecost he was trained dispensational (dallas theological) which kinda makes him a moderate calvinist, yet he was an ordained presbyterian pastor
Isn't he Pentecostal? [;)]
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Rosie Perera said:Blair Laird said:
I am also very confused with J. Dwight Pentecost he was trained dispensational (dallas theological) which kinda makes him a moderate calvinist, yet he was an ordained presbyterian pastor
Isn't he Pentecostal?
"J. Dwight Pentecost (born April 24, 1915) is a Christian theologian best known for his book Things to Come.
He currently is Distinguished Professor of Bible Exposition, Emeritus, at Dallas Theological Seminary, one of only two so honored.[1] He holds a B.A. from Hampden-Sydney Collegeand Th.M. and Th.D. degrees from Dallas Theological Seminary. During his academic career he has taught biblical subjects for nearly half a century (Philadelphia College of Bible, 1948-55; Dallas Theological Seminary, 1955-present). His nearly twenty books are written mostly for the general Christian reader.
His pastoral career has continued through this period. [2]
- Ordained at Cambridge Springs, Pennsylvania (Presbyterian Church) in 1941
- Pastor at the same Cambridge Springs, Pennsylvania (Presbyterian Church) from 1941 to 1946
- Pastor at Devon, Pennsylvania (Saint John's Presbyterian Church) from 1946 to 1951
- Pastor at Dallas, Texas (Grace Bible Church) from 1958 to 1976"
J. Dwight Pentecost. (2010, November 23). In Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia. Retrieved 05:41, December 17, 2010, from http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=J._Dwight_Pentecost&oldid=398524120
I read one of his works on theology, and I was very confused when I read the section on regeneration. Typically, I will look at a persons perspective on regeneration to confirm monergistic theology. This is what was confusing
"When we turn to Galatians 3:26, we discover yet another fact. We were begotten by faith: “For ye are all the children of God by faith in Christ Jesus.” We become a child of God by only one way—by a new birth. And the Apostle points out, in the verse 26, that that which accomplishes the new birth is faith in Christ Jesus. Here we have the instrument by which the new birth is accomplished—faith in Christ Jesus."
J. Dwight Pentecost, Things Which Become Sound Doctrine (Grand Rapids, MI: Kregel Publications, 1996). 37.
" He says that as the child was born into this world, not because of his own will, but because of the will of another, so we are born into the family of God, not by the exercise of our own will, or of our own desires, or of our own working, but we were born of God."
J. Dwight Pentecost, Things Which Become Sound Doctrine (Grand Rapids, MI: Kregel Publications, 1996). 32.
Most people in the reformed circles believe that being born of God comes before faith. But he says faith comes before, and the we are not born by the exercise of our own will. But isn't faith and exercise of the will enabled by God? That is why I am confused.
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Blair Laird said:
Here is the collection that I put together using both of your lists, and then adding some more.
I would suggest that this is misplaced in that collection: Semper Reformandum: Studies in Honor of Clark H. Pinnock. Both the subject and many(most?) of the contributors to that work are Open Theists.
Also, from what I've read, I'm not sure I would consider Donald Bloesch to be "Reformed" in the classic sense, nor would he, even though he taught at a mainline Presbyterian seminary. He forges his own path. He seems to have sympathies with many views and tries to walk a middle ground. I would call him an Ecumenical Evangelical. Here's an article on him from the Handbook of Evangelical Theologians: logosres:7.0.5;art=29
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Thanks for helping me clean up my collection. Clark Pinnock probably got added when I was mass tagging a certain search. I found Bloesch by typing in reformed under the logos website. I read this intro under one of his books so I added him
"Drawing on more than forty years of devoted study, Donald Bloesch now brings a much–needed clarity to the discussion. Well apprised of the most recent developments, yet grounded in his own deep Reformed faith, Bloesch goes beneath current reconstructions of the Jesus of history to probe underlying issues of theological method, models of salvation, the plausibility of miracles, the language of faith and the doctrine of sin."
http://www.logos.com/product/3366/jesus-christ-savior-and-lord
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