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Thursday, 10 December 2009

  • My favorite books of 2009

    I've posted one list of favorite books over at Brian's blog.  Here's a categorical list:

    The best fiction book I read this year: The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexander Dumas.

    The best history book I read this year: The Reformation of Rights by John Witte.

    The best theology book I read this year: Absolute Predestination by Jerome Zanchius.

    The best economics book I read this year: Economics in One Lesson by Henry Hazlitt.

    The best commentary on Scripture that I read this year: Joshua: No Falling Words by Dale Ralph Davis.

    The worst book I read this year: The Shack by William Paul Young.

    The most difficult book I read this year: Theodicy by Gottfried Liebnitz

    The easiest/most fun book I read this year: I, Robot by Isaac Asimov

Tuesday, 01 December 2009

Thursday, 19 November 2009

  • Quoting Calvin

    "It is precisely this which Satan is attempting in assailing infant baptism with such an army: that, once this testimony of God's grace is taken away from us, the promise which, through it, is put before our eyes may eventually vanish little by little.  From this would grow up not only an impious ungratefulness toward God's mercy but a certain negligence about instructing our children in piety.  For when we consider that immediately from birth God takes and acknowledges them as his children, we feel a strong stimulus to instruct them in an earnest fear of God and observance of the law.  Accordingly, unless we wish spitefully to obscure God's goodness, let us offer our infants to him, for he gives them a place among those of his family and household, that is, the members of the church."

    Institutes Book 4, chap. XVII, sec. 32

Tuesday, 17 November 2009

  • Not as silent as it may seem

    I haven't been posting much here, but I have had a recent string of posts at my other blog, where I do book reviews.  I'm currently reviewing a chapter of a book by Greg Bahnsen (published posthumously this year), entitled Presuppositionalism: Stated and Defended.  The chapter is a critique of Gordon Clark, and I'm doing a series of refutations of Bahnsen's main criticisms.

    Check it out if you are interested: Another Reader's Review

Sunday, 01 November 2009

  • Book Log October 2009

    57. Rediscovering Catechism - Donald van Dyken
    58. Heretics of Dune - Frank Herbert
    59. De Dialectica - Augustine
    60. John Calvin: Humanist and Theologian - Basil Hall
    61. First John - Gordon H. Clark
    62. Chapterhouse Dune - Frank Herbert

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