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Read Quality Dogmatics
Frankly, it's depressing when faux-dogmatics like Grudem's Systematic Theology receive an incessant amount of praise and recommendations. Dogmatics should make you think intelligently and devoutly about God, exhibiting the logic of salvation as revealed. You should see the connecting necessities of Covenant, Incarnation, and Redemption. Why, not merely What, is the purpose, so that we can approach scripture with a more coherent image of it all. Grudem and company read like a list of What to believe, and the average Christian, ever-frightful of the imminent doom of the Church, is happy to give a five-star review of such works because they are on "our side" of the controversies (and surely a 1000 page book is substantive and genius!). So, I here humbly present a guide to those who want to study Christian doctrine that succors the mind and inflames the heart.
Stage 1
The Enchiridion on Faith, Hope, and Love by St. Augustine
Essentials of Evangelical Theology by Donald Bloesch
Introduction to Christianity by Joseph Ratzinger
Psalms and Hymns by Isaac Watts
Stage 2
The Institutes of the Christian Religion by John Calvin
Dogmatics (vol. 1, vol. 2, vol. 3) by Emil Brunner
Summa Theologica by St. Thomas Aquinas
Reformed Dogmatics by Herman Bavinck
Stage 3
A System of Christian Doctrine by Isaak Dorner
The Glory of the Lord, Theo-Drama, and Theo-Logic by Hans Urs von Balthasar
Church Dogmatics by Karl Barth
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