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Title: Post-Reformation Reformed Dogmatics: The Rise and Development of Reformed Orthodoxy, Ca. 1520 to Ca. 1725 by Richard A. Muller ISBN: 0-8010-2618-0 Publisher: Baker Academic Pub. Date: 01 August, 2003 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 4 List Price(USD): $175.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4 (2 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Will Revolutionize Reformed Protestant Historiography
Comment: First, in response to a previous reviewer: a single sentence lifted from a page deep within this erudite work does not prove that its design is solely for Th.D. & D.D students. The fact of the matter is, while certain isolated sections are for the advanced student, any learned layperson with a passion for historical theology will be able to understand what's contained in these four volumes.
Dr. Richard A. Muller of Calvin Theological Seminary (Grand Rapids, MI) has, after much toil; finally completed his magnum opus began some twenty-five years ago. The first two volumes, which were published in 1987 & 1993, respectively, are largely rewritten. Also present in these two volumes, not included in the first editions, are exhaustive indices.
This extended treatise is indeed intended for the lay or professional scholar and the very detailed Table of Contents makes that manifestly clear. Every historian working in this particular area and peripheral disciplines will have to come to grips with Muller's research and subsequent theses. His primary interlocutors here are the German and Swiss historians and theologians of the past two centuries, who maintained that there are well-defined discontinuities betwixt the theology of the magisterial Reformers (both Lutheran & Calvinist) and that the Post-Reformation period ca. 1520-1725, is a kind of via moderna. One significant obstacle for said scholars is that there are no sources brought to bear upon this peculiar form of pseudo-historiography. It's simply tradition, conjecture and prejudice that has informed their thinking, not a rigorous reading of both primary and secondary material.
The subtitles of the four volumes, which occupy 2100 pages, are as follows: Prolegomena To Theology; Holy Scripture; The Divine Essence and Attributes; and The Triunity of God. This is not a systematic theology; rather it's a chronicle of the way the Reformers and their followers constructed their theological systems. Also of note, the end of the fourth volume contains a bibliography spanning 124 pages, 57 of which are comprised of primary sources.
Muller's thesis is well documented, lucid and judicious. Read, learn and enjoy.
Soli Deo Gloria.
Robert
Rating: 3
Summary: For Th.D. and D.D. holders only.
Comment: Here is a typical sentence from the book. Infralapsarian and supralapsarian forms of the doctrine of predestination can become identifiers of alternative orthodoxies. This book is written in the compact scholarly journal style. Unless you are Ph.D. level theologian or philosopher you will not be able to follow the arguments, much less understand the technical terms. I have no trouble reading any other theology book so far and that includes Knox written in the spelling and speech of Scotland in 1550. This book is rough going for me. My Ph.D. is in a scientific area.
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Title: Reformed Dogmatics: Prolegomena (Reformed Dogmatics) by Herman Bavinck, John Bolt, John Vriend ISBN: 0801026326 Publisher: Baker Academic Pub. Date: 01 October, 2003 List Price(USD): $49.99 |
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Title: History of Theology by Bengt Hagglund ISBN: 0570032938 Publisher: Concordia Publishing House Pub. Date: 01 June, 1987 List Price(USD): $23.99 |
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Title: A Dictionary of Latin & Greek Theological Terms: Drawn Principally from Protestant Scholastic Theology by Richard A. Muller ISBN: 0801020646 Publisher: Baker Academic Pub. Date: 01 January, 1996 List Price(USD): $24.99 |
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Title: The Doctrine of the Knowledge of God (Theology of Lordship) by John M. Frame ISBN: 0875522629 Publisher: P & R Publishing Pub. Date: July, 1989 List Price(USD): $27.99 |
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Title: The Binding of God: Calvin's Role in the Development of Covenant Theology (Texts and Studies in Reformation and Post-Reformation Thought) by Peter A. Lillback ISBN: 0801022630 Publisher: Baker Academic Pub. Date: 01 June, 2001 List Price(USD): $27.99 |
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