Sunday, October 18, 2009

On The Docket

Last book club we talked about future reading. We decided that after we finish the Iliad, next book club, that we would start the Odyssey. Following the Odyssey we are going to read Home by Marilynne Robinson. After that we decided to read Jonathan Edwards and John Calvin. However, we need to decide what we want to read by Edwards or Calvin. I don't know Edwards enough to make a decision, however, at some point I want to start the Institutes. However, I think we should spread the Institutes out instead of trying to read the whole thing from cover to cover.
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  1. JordanOctober 23, 2009 at 8:28 AM

    In regards to Edwards my vote is for the "The end for which God created the World." The complete text can be found in John Piper's book "God's Passion for His Glory".

    In regards to Calvin I think we should begin with book 1 section 1, concerning the knowledge of God. We might be able to read a few sections. But I think it would be good to start with the Knowledge of God, and then in a while begin to read on the knowledge of the redeemer etc.

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  2. herringmeisterOctober 23, 2009 at 3:42 PM

    That sounds good to me. Not as an end in itself, but as a subordinate end serving as a means to the chief end. I see that you had time to post today – I assume that means that you have not yet been formally introduced to Soren?

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  3. michael boalOctober 27, 2009 at 4:44 PM

    Anyone with an opinion can carry my vote; no idea about the theology stuff. Hope each of you are hanging on; here's a piece of poem from an email I got.

    Virgil
    Georgics IV

    First seek a settled home for your bees, whither
    the winds may find no access--for the winds let them not carry home their food--
    where no ewes or sportive kids may trample the flowers, nor straying heifer
    brush off the dew from the mead and bruise the springing blade.
    Let the spangled lizard with his scaly back be also a stranger to the rich stalls,
    And the bee-eater and other birds, and Procne, with breast marked by her blood stained hands.
    For these spread havoc far and near, and, while the bees are on the wing,
    carry them off in their mouths, a sweet morsel for their cruel nestlings.
    But let clear springs be near, and moss-green pools, and a tiny brook stealing through the grass;
    And let a palm or huge wild olive shade the porch, so that, when the new kings
    lead forth the early swarms in the spring they love,
    and the youth revel in their freedom from the combs, a bank near by may tempt
    them to quit the heat, and a tree in their path may hold them in the sheltering leafage.

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