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Alex Guggenheim
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I found Grudem to be heavy on rationalism and philosophy to the point it infected his exegesis which I found in amounts less ample than expected.
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I like Milne's book (contrary to you), as well as his other books. But "Know the Truth" is very basic ... it gives the 'bare bones' of evangelical doctrine ... much like headings with appropriate bible verses,

For a serious consideration a more in depth book (like Ericksson or McGrath or another major work) is necessary. .... if price is a consideration (as it is for me) then good second-hand copies are not hard to come by.

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I haven't said I dislike the book, it has faults, and I do not share the theology of the author, that is all I have observed so far. Naturally, I could not recommend it to an enquirer, but I imagine you expected me to say that. I'd be recommending THE TEACHING OF CHRIST for somebody who wanted to understand the faith and was not afraid of a bit of reading. For those who prefer short books I'd recommend AT HOME WITH GOD'S PEOPLE.

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... I do not share the theology of the author, that is all I have observed so far...

Since you are specifically trying to find material on what typical Evangelical theology might be - surely you expect that much of your theology, as a Catholic, will be different in any of the books recommended here in line with the OP. I saw nowhere in that post any suggestion that you wanted recommendations for "an enquirer" - other than an enquirer about Evangelical Christianity.

If anyone wants, or has, recommendations for "enquirers" of a different type, please begin a new thread.

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I really think if you want to find majority view evangelical theology you need to move back just a bit in time. I'd suggest that John Miley's two volume systematic theology would put you there. Should be able to pick up a used set very reasonably. I don't have a copy but it read like Billy Graham to me.

The more recent things tend to be more focused on one branch or the other.

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I've been checking with my evangelical acquaintances as well as some Anabaptist friends to see what they've got in their libraries. I have one Anabaptist theology, quite interesting, called A CONTEMPORARY ANABAPTIST THEOLOGY. But I still haven't found a suitable evangelical work, yet.

Marv, thanks for the recommendation, it's a little bit expensive, but I'll see if I can lay my hands on a copy to examine/browse.

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One ardently anti-Catholic evangelical of my acquaintance recommends:

    Institutes of Elenctic Theology by Francis Turretin

However it is rather expensive ($US 93.00), and rather old. The language is modern, being a translation from Latin into English, but it is rather flowery, one might say.

Any thoughts on this suggestion?

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PS: I realise that Turretin's work is very definitely in the Calvinist camp.

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What on earth does 'elenctic' mean?
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Polemic

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It sounds incredibly pompous... still, mustn't judge a book by its cover.
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It is a seventeenth century work. I suspect that being a Swiss-Italian Protestant at that time would have been uncomfortable and scary. And I suspect that almost all theology was rather polemic back then.

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Ah — I was thinking maybe 19th/20th century when you said 'rather old'. That makes more sense, now!
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I think I'll stick with Milne and Unger's dictionary for now, I will spend some time checking more in depth treatments some time down the track, but for now it seems to me that Mile is about as representative of general conservative evangelicalism with a Calvinist leaning as I am likely to get. J I Packer has a "Concise Systematic Theology" of some sort, and he'd be in the same camp as Milne [a little more Anglican I suspect]. Unger is from the Lewis Sperry Chafer camp of dispensational evangelicalism, so he's likely to be a representative source for that kind of evangelical thought. Since I already have McGrath's Christian Theology, the Anglican evangelical camp is well represented, and at a fairly in depth level. And since I already have a number of Calvinist Systematics, that side of evangelicalism is well covered. I may also have a Pentecostal Systematic Theology hidden away among my books, so There may not be any significant angle left uncovered.

Anyway, thanks for your suggestions folks. If you can think of any significant body of current evangelical thinking that I do not have coverage for, then please mention it.

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I finished checking for likely consensus evangelical theology books and have decided on two. I've now purchased them both - they were on sale and had an additional 20% price reduction if bought online so they cost very little. The two books are:
  • ONE FAITH - The Evangelical Consensus (2004, 225 pages)
  • EVANGELICAL DICTIONARY OF THEOLOGY Second Edition (2001, 1312 pages)

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