Got home late last night to find the two volumes of William Cunningham’s Historical Theology waiting for me.
It’s part of my long-term but under-realised goal of reading more deeply in home-grown theologians – and Cunningham was one of the most profound of the group of mid-19th century Scottish theologians. I can’t wait to get the time to dive in.
Meanwhile on the book front, I took the second edition of Ladd’s Intonational Phonology with me to work today to read in my break – shoved it in a smallish plastic bag which turned out to be from Accessorize. How appropriate, I thought. Intonational Phonology, you see, is this season’s must-have. It went so well with the rest of my outfit and I bet everyone on the bus was really jealous.
“Cunningham was one of the most profound of the group of mid-19th century Scottish theologians”
wow.
:-P
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“The Warfield – nay, the Calvin! – of his day” says his biographer.
Yes, that’s how important he was :)
The theologians of the Disruption Free Church are actually quite underestimated though imho. Cunningham, James Buchanan, James Bannerman, Hugh Martin, George Smeaton … People go to the Puritans for reverent, practical, devotional theology but i think we do miss out when Scots like these are overlooked – there was no lack of learning or eloquence or thoroughly well grounded confessional orthodoxy from the church in Scotland between the 1820s and say the 1880s.
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You are so now! Most people I know don’t clue in to the latest prosodic accessories until two or even three seasons after they’ve hit the bibliophilic runways of Oxford. ;)
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Yes, it nicely accents my pitch – gives a nice, floating tone. But the IPO hat range is a bit passe I’m thinking.
Arf, arf.
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The theologians of the Disruption Free Church were surely the Galacticos of the Reformed world (well along with the Princetonians)
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Yes, yes, yes. Why are they so neglected? Somebody needs to update James Walker so he goes beyond 1750 in the Theology and Theologians of Scotland!
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Now could everybody please stop commenting on this post and drawing attention to the most miserably unfinished sentence I may ever have written on this blog?
https://ninetysixandten.wordpress.com/2009/03/20/excitement/#comment-2328
:)
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