Wayne Grudem Puns

I know it’s not the first choice of folk here, but it has the huge advantage of having an audio book version, which is pretty much vital for me with dyslexia and my current migraine struggles. It also has a study handbook available. Plus it has the bonus of being fairly close to a year long on a chapter a week.

Happy to switch to another book if we can get around five to commit as long as audio is available and the book is accessible (in print and not a silly price).

Connect via WhatsApp, Discord, even the chat function on here if someone knows how groups work, something else, for accountability to having done the reading (listening), memory verse etc. not saying no discussion, just expressing that my interest is in accountability as I attempt to get an overview of a whole bunch of stuff.

I’m looking to deepen my understanding of scripture, and decided to look through the recommend reading on the sidebar. I saw two that I’m going to order: What is Reformed Theology? by R.C. Sproul and Letters to a Young Calvinist. Much of what I’ve learned about the Reformed faith is owed to two people, my father and R.C. Sproul (in the form of video lectures), so I think I’m going to really enjoy the first one!

After that, it looks like the next step is to work through a meaty Systematic Theology book. Unfortunately we don’t have any of the ones listed at my house, but we do have Systematic Theology by Wayne Grudem. Considering the important (and length) of a book like this I figured I should post here to get people’s takes on it. It looks like the author has had some controversial stances on certain issues in the past, but I’m wondering if this book is decent or I would do better with an alternative.

To clarify, I plan on reading the two I first mentioned before diving into a Systematic Theology book. So this isn’t an immediate issue.

Thanks for anyone’s response!

From the introduction to the text linked below,

> Upon myself being surprised by Wayne Grudem’s “surprise” that Carl Truman and Liam Goligher would publically accuse his work of not being consistent with Nicene Orthodoxy (see “Whose Position on the Trinity is Really New”), I thought it potentially fruitful, for the interested student, to compile in one place a hearty helping of Pro-Nicene sentiment. As my eloquence does not compare with that of the Cappadocian Fathers or Augustine (or Grudem himself for that matter), I intend to get right to the meat and potatoes and not rehash the controversy or assess it Biblically; many others have ably done this already.

>Rather, I have selected 13 points used by Grudem to defend his claim that the Son is and was in a relation of eternal submission to the authority of the Father, and have put them in apposition to many passages from the corpus of the Pro-Necene Fathers (and, of course, Calvin). All of these points are present in his article, “Biblical Evidence for the Eternal Submission of the Son to the Father”, though my numbering does not correspond directly with Grudem’s.

Having put in many hours reading through the Pro-Nicene Fathers, especially the Cappadocians since they were largely responsible for the Orthodox formulations and language affirmed at Constantinople 381, but including Augustine and other Fathers who went on to defend Nicene Orthodoxy, I decided to try to gather up much of the fruit of the work in one place to help those on the fence truly asses where EFS/ESS/ERAS stands with respect to the orthodox tradition. Grudem claims that he and his fellow travelers are simply stating what has always been believed and taught since the Nicene Creed and that it is rather his critics which have departed from the Nicene Fathers.

I hope this will help the interested reader to get a sense of the Nicene understanding as espoused by those creating and defending the tradition by means of the scripture and reason. Let me know what you think and enjoy!

https://www.scribd.com/document/321918109/Surprised-by-Orthodoxy