Rutherford Seminar
So, yeah, it appears that my blog is dead. The reality is I have been busy working on digitizing books.
This takes a lot of work, from cutting up books, to scanning the work, to reading with an OCR program (ABBYY) to then editing the work.
I get bored working on one book so I have been doing three works.
1) The Interpretation of Prophecy - Fairbairn
2) The Selected Works of Robert Rollock
3) A Free Disputation Against Liberty of Conscience - Rutherford.
As to the last book I thought I would take a minute to explain a seminar that we are starting up here.
http://reformedlayman.com/FreeDispHtml/ConvertedDisputation.htm
- We are meeting once a week (Saturdays 9am-11am) to go through one of Rutherford's works (mainly because we would not necessarily pick up and read Rutherford on our own - so accountability encourages). We also are seeking to go into higher education and so this should provide an avenue to develop skills, such as lecturing, outline development, advanced theological comprehension, etc.
- There will be a time of Lecturing, Discussion, and Outline comparision.
- Each of us 4 (Edgar, Tony, Ben and I) will take turns lecturing and the outline for lecturing (40 minute time limit) follows:
1) Introduction
2) Positive Postion
- Articulate Rutherford's position in the chapter.
3) Objections and Rutherford's Answers
- State the arguments that Rutherford gives against the argument, then address the answers Rutherford gives.
4) Conclusion
- Is there a critique to Rutherford's stated position?
- Is there a more precise way of stating the position?
- Is there a present day application to the principle stated?
- The lecturer will then lead the group through a list of questions that they prepared.
- The group will then be able to respond the the lecture content, as well as give their own thoughts as to what content they would present (if nor addressed)
- Finally, another goal is for the lecturer to present their own outline of the chapter, and then for the group to compare/critique, based upon their own outlines, and the hope is that we can
1) develop the skill of comprehension which will be shown by our outlines gradually becoming more consistent with each other.
2) to have a working outline of a Rutherford book, and if this continues other books.
- There will also be time (say every 5th week) to use the set aside time for critique of presentation, so to help develop that skill of lecturing and manuscript development, etc.
This takes a lot of work, from cutting up books, to scanning the work, to reading with an OCR program (ABBYY) to then editing the work.
I get bored working on one book so I have been doing three works.
1) The Interpretation of Prophecy - Fairbairn
2) The Selected Works of Robert Rollock
3) A Free Disputation Against Liberty of Conscience - Rutherford.
As to the last book I thought I would take a minute to explain a seminar that we are starting up here.
http://reformedlayman.com/FreeDispHtml/ConvertedDisputation.htm
- We are meeting once a week (Saturdays 9am-11am) to go through one of Rutherford's works (mainly because we would not necessarily pick up and read Rutherford on our own - so accountability encourages). We also are seeking to go into higher education and so this should provide an avenue to develop skills, such as lecturing, outline development, advanced theological comprehension, etc.
- There will be a time of Lecturing, Discussion, and Outline comparision.
- Each of us 4 (Edgar, Tony, Ben and I) will take turns lecturing and the outline for lecturing (40 minute time limit) follows:
1) Introduction
2) Positive Postion
- Articulate Rutherford's position in the chapter.
3) Objections and Rutherford's Answers
- State the arguments that Rutherford gives against the argument, then address the answers Rutherford gives.
4) Conclusion
- Is there a critique to Rutherford's stated position?
- Is there a more precise way of stating the position?
- Is there a present day application to the principle stated?
- The lecturer will then lead the group through a list of questions that they prepared.
- The group will then be able to respond the the lecture content, as well as give their own thoughts as to what content they would present (if nor addressed)
- Finally, another goal is for the lecturer to present their own outline of the chapter, and then for the group to compare/critique, based upon their own outlines, and the hope is that we can
1) develop the skill of comprehension which will be shown by our outlines gradually becoming more consistent with each other.
2) to have a working outline of a Rutherford book, and if this continues other books.
- There will also be time (say every 5th week) to use the set aside time for critique of presentation, so to help develop that skill of lecturing and manuscript development, etc.
posted by shawn at Sunday, November 20, 2005
1 Comments:
Wow, you're an ambitious lot. :) Reading Rutherford was a rather tedious excercise for me. I should have taken summarizational notes as I read.
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