First Schedule for Reading and Discussing Culver

Discussion of the following chapters will begin on the dates shown, based on an overall speed of 3.167 pages per day to cover the book in a year:

Chapter	Title	Commencement
1	An Intro. to Christian Theology	1st September
2	Preliminary to Talk about God
3	Special Terms of Talk about God
4	Why People do Believe in God	17th September
5	Reasons for Believing in God

Please note the following:

• Members are free to post on any of the relevant chapters that commence on that date, or those that have gone before.
• As 1st September is in the middle of the week, the second session begins on the Lord's Day to start synchronising the start of each session with the beginning of the week.
• The next session will thus begin on Sabbath, 24th September.

We'll see how this goes.

Culver to be in Anchorage

Robert Culver will be in Anchorage, Alaska from September 18-25, preaching and teaching at our church. If we do not interact with him via blog, I can bring to him some of the questions which will surely be (and have been) generated. I have been in contact with him recently and he is at a family reunion in Washington (Yakima, I think).

HOW WE WILL READ CULVER

Ok, folks. This is probably the best way for us to move towards a beginning - by setting out clearly the best way for the growing number of us to read together, and then to discuss.

First of all, Timothy Davis has agreed to co-moderate discussions. You'll have noticed from his posts that he's a firm precisian - and a Presbyterian to boot.

As we all have ability to post a main entry, as well as to make comments on main entries, the blog could rapidly spiral out of control.

Therefore, we suggest that the moderator should state when a chapter or part-chapter is to be discussed and that members should then be encouraged to try to keep their comment-posts relevant to that chapter.

We should also thank Timothy for the fresh new look to the site!

Let's keep reading - I for one am getting much less done than I had hoped - and discussions will commence sometime in August.

ChangeDetection.com can be used to detect any posts to the blog, but all comments to this blog are autoforwarded to all members.

Introductory posts are okay now including bios, general remarks on theology and systematic theology, and topics not covered in Culver, e.g. the doctrine of Scripture.

Supralapsarianism and Hyper-Calvinism

Prof. Culver mistakenly identifies supralapsarianism and hyper-Calvinism on p. 388 and p. 397. Supralapsarianism is the doctrine that God's decree to save some and damn others logically precedes his decree to permit the Fall, whereas hyper-Calvinism is the view that reprobates are not under a duty to repent and believe.

For what it's worth I'm also not convinced that the Westminster standards embody 'near implicit Traducianism' (p. 398), which is, in any case, compatible with the theory of federal or representative headship.

Biblical Infallibility and Belief in Scripture for Salvation

As Culver doesn't cover the doctrine of Scripture in his ST, you may be interested in this post on my blog.

Plymouth Brethren

Perhaps Crawford can field this one. On p. 8 of ST by Dr Culver he makes the following statement: "Even some Plymouth Brethren have conceded that not every new 'assembly' comes to birth with all the spiritual gifts and those gifted to be 'pastors and teachers'. Very late they have 'discovered' that their founding Fathers were all thoroughly educated and theologically trained Anglican clergymen."

Is this an accurate statement with regard to some PB not being aware of the their found Fathers education and abilities?

Who were the early PB founders and how devoted to Christ and his word were they?

Is there such a thing as a PB systematic theology?

What do you believe to be the most lasting impact (good and bad) of the PB in Ireland and the rest of the world as far as you know?