A Big Thank You

I was moved by each of your kind comments on the last post. I appreciated that each of you invested a moment of your day to provide some feedback to help determine how this little blog can best serve you. And your kind words were a great encouragement (thanks for sharing your story Steven!).

So if I hear you correctly,

(1) you appreciate longer posts over the short (Kevin, I’m printing your comment and posting it over my computer. Thank you!),

(2) you prefer occasional posts with substance (whenever I can get them posted) over the brief daily posts, and

(3) you would like to see a return to full book reviews and more how-to articles (although I’m afraid all my tricks have been exhausted).

These points are useful to help determine the future content I develop on this blog. Thank you for helping me to see the profitability of this blog. I am humbled by your readership and encouraged to press on as we pursue the cross of Jesus Christ together!

Blessings to each of you!

Tony

The Blog…

…is undergoing change.

As you can see, Miscellanies has gone “short form,” a tiny, Twitter-like format that allows me to update frequently, frees more time to read, provides a flexible means of sharing what I read, and will (hopefully) free more time to write essays. We’ll see how it goes.

What do you think so far?

Van Mastricht by 2014?

“This early 17th century work is as massive as Bavinck’s dogmatics and had a major influence on such important Puritan divines as Jonathan Edwards. If the society can complete this project in five years, I will be very happy.”

James DeJong, President of the Dutch Reformed Translation Society, announcing that last month they began translating into English Peter Van Mastricht’s Theoretico-Practica Theologia, or “Theoretical and Practical Theology.” This work has been made famous, at least in part, by the glowing recommendation of Jonathan Edwards who ranked PVM’s work second only to the Bible in importance. Harry Stout writes that PVM was “one of the major influences on Jonathan Edwards’s theology from his graduate days onward.”

Collect your pennies, the entire project is expected to be completed by 2014.

Source: Reformation Heritage Books, Tolle Lege, Feb. 2009, p. 20.