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	Book / topic	Comment
1	Sanctified Vision: An Introduction To Early Christian Interpretation Of The Bible by John J O’Keefe and R R Reno	Extracts / quotes from Keefe and Reno’s book Sanctified Vision - without comment (11 page pdf)
2	The Desire of the Nations by Oliver O’Donovan	Paragraph summaries of and quotations from Oliver O’ Donovan’s great The Desire of the Nations (47 page pdf)
3	Street Belief Survey 1	Street Belief Survey based on the work of Agape
4	Street Belief Survey 2	A revised version of the Street Belief Survey
5	George Orwell’s 1984	Selected quotations from Orwell’s 1984 (Word doc)
6	The Imitation of Christ	Selected quotations from The Imitation of Christ (Word doc)
7	Paedofaith by Rich Lusk	Selected quotations from Lusk’s Paedofaith (Word doc)
8	Is it wrong for Christians to use birth control?	A short ‘paper’ on birth control (pdf)
9	‘Babylon’ is Jerusalem	10 pages from P.G. Medd’s The One Mediator about “Babylon” in Revelation and Jerusalem (pdf)
10	Ames on Preaching	2 page reading aid to go with Ames’ Marrow I.xxxv (Neil Jeffers & David Field)
11	Contents of Turretin’s Institutes	17 page pdf document giving the contents of Turretin’s Institutes
12	Numbered chapter list	4 page Word document listing the 1189 chapters of the Bible in order with numbers alongside
13	Commentary notes on Matthew 28.16-20	11 page pdf document with selected notes and quotes from a range of commentaries on Matthew 28.16-20
14	Jesus on the Mountain	4 page pdf document – key passages and summaries from Terence Donaldson’s 1985 book Jesus on the Mountain
15	DavidPField Blog 001-200	See davidpfield.blogspot.com
16	Idols for Destruction by Schlossberg	9 page pdf document containing rough notes and quotes of Scholossberg’s 1983 book, Idols for Destruction
17	Great Commission words	5 page pdf document listing the occurrences of disciple (mathētēs), ‘worship’ (proskuneō), and authority (exousia) in Matthew’s gospel
18	Thomas Goodwin on Covenant Children	70 page pdf document consisting of Book V of Thomas Goodwin’s 1682, Discourse of Election – “Election in the ordinary course of it, runs in a line of succession from believing parents to their posterity. Superb discussions of I Cor 7.14, of asserting free grace even when God ordinarily elects the children of believers, and of how covenant children are to be regarded and treated.
19	The Eschatology of Being Born Again by Derrick Olliff	8 page pdf document by Derrick Oliff on “The Eschatology of Being Born Again”, reproduced with the author’s permission and highlighting the redemptive-historical and corporate features of Jesus’s discussion with Nicodemus in John 3
20	The Gospel: The Return of the King by Derrick Olliff	7 page pdf document by Derrick Olliff on “The Return of the King”, reproduced with the author’s permission and demonstrating that the content of the ‘good news’ is the arrival and enthronement of the world’s true king
21	Looking for Legalism by Derrick Olliff	9 page pdf document by Derrick Olliff on “Looking for Legalism”, reproduced with the author’s permission and answering the question ‘was legalism the key sin of Israel or the Pharisees?’ by presenting the relevant NT data
22	When the Fullness of Time Had Come: Paul’s Gospel to the Galatians by Derrick Olliff	13 page pdf document by Derrick Olliff on “Paul’s Gospel to the Galatians”, reproduced with the author’s permission and giving the ‘big picture’ of Paul’s letter to the Galatians in the form of a ‘mini-commentary’
23	Summa Articles	64 page pdf document simply listing the questions and articles of Summa Theologica by Thomas Aquinas. Browsing the list will make you want to go and read (bits of) Aquinas himself.
24	Outline of John Frame’s “Doctrine of the Knowledge of God” by Tom Watts	22 page pdf document by Tom Watts’, outlining the contents of John Frame’s book, The Doctrine of the Knowledge of God, and reproduced with the author’s permission.
25	The Biblical Theology of the Song of Songs by Ros Clarke	70 page pdf document by Ros Clarke on “The Biblical Theology of the Song of Songs”, reproduced with the author’s permission and providing an utterly wonderful biblical theology of the Song of Songs.
26	Notes from and thoughts on John Frame’s “Salvation belongs to the Lord”	8 page pdf document of my jotted appreciations of Frame’s wonderful book, Salvation Belongs to the Lord.
27	Fresh Perspectives	8 page pdf document with some of my favourite moments from N T Wright’s splendid book, Fresh Perspectives
28	The Seventy Faces of Torah	3 page pdf document of notes / quotes from Stephen Wylen’s The Seventy Face of Torah: The Jewish Way of Reading the Sacred Scriptures
29	A brief overview of the Book of Revelation	7 page pdf document giving a brief overview of the Book of Revelation
30	DavidPField Blog 201 - 400	See davidpfield.blogspot.com
31	DavidPField Blog 401 - 600	See davidpfield.blogspot.com
32	Why Defined Benefits Never Work	2 page pdf document by Don Donovan talking moral and economic sense about pensions
33	AAPC 2007 handout for DF lecture 1	6 page pdf document – notes accompanying a lecture on Matthew 28.16-20. The lecture is online at http://www.auburnavenue.org/mp3.htm
34	AAPC 2007 handout for DF lectures 2 & 3	8 page pdf document – notes accompanying a lecture on how everything we do now lasts (in some ways) into life the other side of resurrection day. The lecture is online at http://www.auburnavenue.org/mp3.htm
35	In Search of Paul: How Jesus’ Apostle Opposed Rome’s Empire with God’s Kingdom	12 page pdf document with notes from Crossan and Reed’s 2005 book, In Search of Paul: How Jesus’ Apostle Opposed Rome’s Empire with God’s Kingdom.
36	Westminster Confession of Faith – audio	65 minute reading of the 1646 Westminster Confession of Faith. Available in individual chapters or as a single 59MB zip file for download.
37	Not the Least Lash Lost	46 page pdf document consisting of a very rough write-up of my AAPC 2007 lectures on how everything we do now lasts forever.
38	Notes on eschatology talks	12 page pdf document consisting of notes accompanying talks on eschatology given at a church weekend in February 2007
39	Notes on eschatology talks	12 page pdf document consisting of a second set of notes accompanying talks on eschatology given at a church weekend in February 2007
40	Christian homeschooling	9 page pdf document with some ancient scribbles of mine intended to irritate parents into thinking a bit more about Christian education.
41	Evangel+	17 page pdf document listing as accurately as I can the uses of the “euaggel*” words in the LXX and the GNT
42	Dik words in Romans	30 page pdf document giving a list of all dik words in Romans and then giving an interlinear of Romans with those words emphasized.
43	Climbing Mount Romans	15 page pdf document giving A Rough Wright Guide to Romans
44	Wright’s Perspectives on Romans	7 page pdf document with notes for a SEMS (fraternal) talk on TomWright, the New Perspective, and Romans
45	Romans 8.13	31 page pdf document by Chris Lowe on “The Meaning of Romans 8.13 and its function in Paul’s argument”, reproduced with the author’s permission. Along the way this thesis provides tremendous help in understanding 8.1-11.
46	Romans 2.1-16	36 page pdf document by Paul White giving “An Intertextual Analysis of Romans 2.1-16”, reproduced with the author’s permission. One of the most exciting things I have ever read on Romans.
47	DavidPField Blog 601 - 800	See davidpfield.blogspot.com
48	Reduced Lex, rex	44 page pdf document listing some available editions of Rutherford’s Lex, rex, giving the title page and the very full table of contents, and providing a taste of the book in 30 pages of selected illustrative quotations.
49	Rutherford and the Confessionally Christian State	6 page pdf document used as the handout to accompany a lecture at the Oak Hill School of Theology 2007
50	How To Read	5 page pdf document – handout for a brief lecture in the “Stating the Obvious” module at Oak Hill College
51	Romanus Cessario’s Introduction to Moral Theology	8 page pdf document with some of my favourite moments from Cessario’s great book.
52	Oliver Cromwell and the Puritan Revolution	5 page lightweight notes – many from OliverCromwell.org – to accompany a breakfast chat
53	Rutherford and the Confessionally Christian State	35 page essay – a rough write up of a lecture I gave earlier this year on Rutherford and the Confessionally Christian State (see items 48 and 49 above). I address 16 objections to the confessionally Christian state and explain why I think that the alternatives fail (no confession is impossible and tyrannical!; a false confession is idolatrous; “principled pluralism” is unstable).
54	Propositions and argument ABC	2 sides of elementary introduction to some of the terms and relations which lie behind formal argument
55	Keeping Clean, Growing Up – Notes on Leviticus	23 page pdf document with notes from Bible weekend on Leviticus
56	The Roots of Reconstruction	11 page Word document with some of my favourite lines from R.J. Rushdoony
57	DavidPField Blog 801-1000	145 page Word document containing the text of 200 entries on http://davidpfield.blogspot.com (April 24^th 2007 – Nov 21^st 2007)
59	Douglas Knight on time	Just a couple of sides of favourite moments, mostly on time, from Douglas H Knight’s book, The Eschatological Economy
60	“Law” in Romans (and Galatians)	4 page Word document listing and summarizing all the uses of “law” in Romans (and Galatians)
61	The Gospel in Romans	20 pages of notes on Romans for a church weekend
62	Science and Christianity	9 page Word document surveying some basic epistemological points which need making when considering the relationship between Christianity and “science”
63	Surprised by Hope	5 page Word document. Some of my favourite moments from Tom Wright’s Surprised by Hope.
64	DavidPField Blog 1001 - 1200	131 page Word document containing the text of 200 entries on http://davidpfield.blogspot.com (Nov 21^st 2007 – June 18^th 2008)