Comments on: The Progress of Doctrine http://feedingonchrist.com/the-progress-of-doctrine/ Reformed theological resources Thu, 02 Feb 2012 14:29:55 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Nicholas T. Batzig http://feedingonchrist.com/the-progress-of-doctrine/comment-page-1/#comment-3797 Nicholas T. Batzig Mon, 08 Feb 2010 23:38:04 +0000 http://www.feedingonchrist.com/?p=2851#comment-3797 Layton, I couldn't agree more, nor could I have articulated the strength of this work any better than you have. Thanks for the comment! Layton,

I couldn’t agree more, nor could I have articulated the strength of this work any better than you have. Thanks for the comment!

]]> By: Layton Talbert http://feedingonchrist.com/the-progress-of-doctrine/comment-page-1/#comment-3795 Layton Talbert Mon, 08 Feb 2010 22:25:20 +0000 http://www.feedingonchrist.com/?p=2851#comment-3795 Someone alerted me to your recent post on Bernard's Progress of Doctrine. I warmly concur. I'm grateful for its recent republications by Univ. of Mich. Library (2005) and Kessinger (2007); I recommend Kessinger's hardcover for its sturdy stock (for highlighting) and wide margins (for notes). It is one of my required texts (along with a contemporary NTT, currently Frank Thielman's) for my graduate-level NT Theology course at Bob Jones University & Seminary. My students are required to read the entire book and outline each lecture (along with a great deal more work!), and most of them love it despite the somewhat dated language. Amid a profusion of sophisticated treatments of the theology of the NT (at least twenty major works on NT theology have surfaced in the last decade alone), some may be tempted to dismiss Bernard's approach and treatment as simplistic. But such a judgment only signifies short-sighted chronological snobbery. Bernard's big-picture grasp of how the NT functions pedagogically is unmatched. His lectures flicker with flashes of brilliant insight. Even the key text selected for each lecture displays remarkable perception. Above all, few modern theological works breathe the rich devotional air that animates Bernard's lectures. Through his knowledge of the Scriptures, Bernard has entered not only into the mind of God but the heart of God. It's a treasure and a classic that deserves a rereading at least every 5 years to reorient the reader to the whole NT forest lest one lose his bearings among the individual trees. Someone alerted me to your recent post on Bernard’s Progress of Doctrine. I warmly concur. I’m grateful for its recent republications by Univ. of Mich. Library (2005) and Kessinger (2007); I recommend Kessinger’s hardcover for its sturdy stock (for highlighting) and wide margins (for notes). It is one of my required texts (along with a contemporary NTT, currently Frank Thielman’s) for my graduate-level NT Theology course at Bob Jones University & Seminary. My students are required to read the entire book and outline each lecture (along with a great deal more work!), and most of them love it despite the somewhat dated language.
Amid a profusion of sophisticated treatments of the theology of the NT (at least twenty major works on NT theology have surfaced in the last decade alone), some may be tempted to dismiss Bernard’s approach and treatment as simplistic. But such a judgment only signifies short-sighted chronological snobbery. Bernard’s big-picture grasp of how the NT functions pedagogically is unmatched. His lectures flicker with flashes of brilliant insight. Even the key text selected for each lecture displays remarkable perception. Above all, few modern theological works breathe the rich devotional air that animates Bernard’s lectures. Through his knowledge of the Scriptures, Bernard has entered not only into the mind of God but the heart of God. It’s a treasure and a classic that deserves a rereading at least every 5 years to reorient the reader to the whole NT forest lest one lose his bearings among the individual trees.

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