Petrus Van Mastricht's Theoretical-Practical Theology with Todd Rester

Life and Books and Everything

Clearly Reformed

Books, Religion & Spirituality, Arts, Christianity

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🗓️ 1 May 2024

⏱️ 76 minutes

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Summary

What are you doing with your life? Todd Rester is using a big chunk of his life to translate a seventeenth-century Dutch theologian's magnum opus (all 1.7 million words of it) from Latin into English. Join Kevin and Todd as they take a deep dive into the world of Latin translation, systematic theology, and church history. Who was Petrus Van Mastricht? What was his method? What did he teach? Why does he matter? Come swim in the cool, refreshing waters of Reformed scholastic theology and be encouraged to "live to God, through Christ."

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Ask Pastor John: 750 Bible Answers to Life's Most Important Questions

ESV Systematic Theology Study Bible: Theology Rooted in the Word of God

Theoretical-Practical Theology

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0:00.0	Greetings and salutations.
0:09.3	Welcome back to life and books and everything.
0:13.3	I'm Kevin DeYoung and glad to have you with us.
0:17.6	I have my special guest today, Todd Rester, who I'll introduce in just a moment.
0:24.7	Want to thank our sponsors, Crossway. And in particular today, to mention the ESV systematic theology study Bible, which is appropriate considering we are going to talk about some systematic theology in just a moment.
0:39.3	So there are lots of study Bibles, but they serve a real useful purpose, a good one does, in the life of the Christian.
0:47.3	And this one, the ESV Systematic Theology Study Bible features study notes, 400 in text summaries, articles, book introductions, sidebars, and more.
0:57.5	So check that out.
0:59.4	You can go to crossway.org.
1:00.9	You can sign up there for a Crossway Plus account, get 30% off.
1:05.4	And also I want to thank Desiring God.
1:08.4	And the new book, Ask Pastor John, 750 Bible answers to life's most important
1:14.2	questions, which is also put out by Crossway. The Ask Pastor John podcast is really an invaluable
1:22.4	resource if you've not been listening to that. It's one of the podcasts I subscribe to and
1:28.1	listen to it. Often, it's really John doing, he sometimes says, making up for 30 years of
1:34.3	pastoral application. And then Tony Rankie has put 750 of those into this massive book. So,
1:41.3	Todd Restor is a professor at Westminster Theological Seminary, where he
1:48.9	teaches church history as Ph.D. from Calvin M.D. from RTS Jackson. And your undergraduate
1:56.7	degree from Louisiana Tech University. Are you from Louisiana, Todd? Yes. I grew up in
2:04.3	South Louisiana in Baton Rouge and went to Louisiana Tech, started out in life, headed into
2:09.6	biomedical engineering, and then ended up in medical technology and marketing, working for
2:16.4	hospitals in Jackson, Mississippi when I went to
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