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End of Part One.

Now entering a very short Part Two.

In which I disagree with Witsius once more.

I really do actually like him, I swear!

In which Witsius explicitly connects, "Love Yahweh your God with all your heart, soul, mind, and strength" with the first table of the Decalogue and "love your neighbor as yourself," with the second. Both explicitly have man being the image of God as the basis.

I probably got this from him, but there are very few teachings that have arranged the contours of my mental map to a greater degree.

"Let us now enquire into the thing itself, that is nature of the covenant of God with man; which I thus define: A covenant of God with man, is an agreement between God and man, about the way of obtaining consummate happiness; including a commination of eternal destruction, with which the contemner of the happiness, offered in that way, is to be punished."

"God, to whose ministry I was so early devoted, is pleased, not so much with the accuracy of the address of his worshippers, as with the innocence and holiness of their lives, and has a greater regard for him who brings to his temple a pure and sincere heart, than with those, who present the most studied form of words."

Contra Dolezal, we can ONLY know God as He has revealed Himself in redemptive history, lest we blasphemously, though perhaps unwittingly, create for ourselves a "naturalistic" idol out of the precious metal of changeless Being to go before us into the fearful wilderness of flux.

Chapter 10: In Ranks With the Spirit

The next book I'm reading with Calvin!

Chapter 9: Justified From the Elements

Chapter 8: Justified by the Faith of Jesus

"Justification" is a Pauline term to describe the atonement itself, not merely to describe the application of the fruit of the atonement to an individual person. The first recipient of justification was Jesus by His resurrection (His resurrection was His justification), and then the world is justified through Him.

Chapter 7: The Faith of Jesus Christ (Part 2)

Chapter 7: The Faith of Jesus Christ

(In which Leithart defends penal substitutionary atonement)

Chapter 6: The Justice of God

Chapter 5: What Torah Does (Part 2)

Chapter 5: What Torah Does (Part 1)

Chapter 4: Flesh

Chapter 2: The Physics of the Old Creation

Chapter 1: Atonement as Social Theory

Logic as a tool of theology.

Frame discusses language as a tool for theology and related subtopics.

Scripture as painting, Scripture as window, and Scripture as mirror.