Lectures on Theology -- John Dick

VirginiaHuguenot · #1 (**permalink**) 10-26-2007, 04:04 PM

John Dick's Lectures on Theology are available online:

Vol. 1

Vol. 2

VirginiaHuguenot · #2 (**permalink**) 10-27-2007, 09:33 AM

The Tentmaker Publications edition is available for purchase at Reformation Heritage Books.

Daniel Ritchie · #3 (**permalink**) 10-27-2007, 06:06 PM

Was John Dick a Seceder?

VirginiaHuguenot · #4 (**permalink**) 10-27-2007, 06:18 PM

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Originally Posted by Daniel Ritchie

Was John Dick a Seceder?

He was a pastor and professor of theology in the United Secession Church. There is a link to a biographical sketch of him which discusses his ministerial career in the OP.

bookslover · #5 (**permalink**) 10-27-2007, 08:44 PM

I remember reading his systematic theology some years ago. Somewhere (volume 1, I think), he comes out in favor of the possibility of life on other planets, seeing no biblical reason why it could not be so - which I thought was interesting.

VirginiaHuguenot · #6 (**permalink**) 02-03-2008, 08:07 AM

William Cunningham in his Theological Lectures commends John Dick's Lectures in Theology.

Daniel Ritchie · #7 (**permalink**) 02-03-2008, 09:49 AM

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Originally Posted by bookslover

I remember reading his systematic theology some years ago. Somewhere (volume 1, I think), he comes out in favor of the possibility of life on other planets, seeing no biblical reason why it could not be so - which I thought was interesting.

Sounds scary

VirginiaHuguenot · #8 (**permalink**) 03-22-2008, 11:55 AM

John Dick, Lectures on Theology, 1:6-7 on systematic theology:

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It is granted, that the Scriptures do not deliver religion to us in that artificial form which we find in the writings of the schoolmen … although there is certainly an approach to it in some parts of the Bible … but no man, I think, who is in possession of his senses, and understands what he is saying, will deny, that religion is systematic. The Word of God is not an assemblage of writings which have no other relation to each other but juxtaposition … There is arrangement here … although it may require time and patience to discover it … The study of the Scriptures is not recommended to us, that we may load our memories with a multitude of unconnected ideas, but that we may bring together and combine the truths which are scattered up and down in them, and thus “understand what the will of the Lord is.”